Ryan Gander: Culturefield

Ryan Gander’s work ranges across a dizzying spectrum of forms and ideas.

His meticulously researched projects—which have included such diverse conceptual gestures as an invented word, a chess set, a television script, and a children’s book—engage familiar historical narratives and cultural paradigms only to unravel their structures and assumptions, presenting elusive scenarios that abound with interpretive potential.

Published to coincide with the exhibition Ryan Gander: Make every show like it’s your last at Manchester Art Gallery, July 3–September 14, 2014, this substantial volume surveys his diverse oeuvre.

Texts by Aileen Burns, Johan Lundh, and Rebecca May Marston.