Ryan Gander

GB Agency is thrilled to present Wrong Time Paradigm, Ryan Gander’s sixth solo exhibition at the gallery, featuring recent and new works inspired by the artist’s reduced geographical mobility over the last year, anchored in his philosophical and semiotic explorations around time and the nature of attention.

“We live in the middle of nowhere really, in the countryside close to the coast. During the last year there was a drought of inspiration. There is nothing out here at night but the moon and the fire, and although it was hard to navigate working with these two such cliché and overly sensationalised signifiers, there was something in the excess of time and the endless silence that drew me to them. Something weirdly primal and existential. I couldn’t get prehistory out of my head. Images of how the world would have looked without language, that arrived with the invention of fire, consumed me. When I stared at the moon each night I was overcome by the the idea that ancient civilisations based on notions of balance and stasis would be the only way forward for us. Our accelerated capitalist growth economies are based in a chronos world, where we do things when we are told, as opposed to a Kiaros world where we do things when our the eco systems we live in suggests its time. We live by a clock and suppress our instinctive readiness.”

—Ryan Gander