Double Vision

Two self portraits for the price of one.

Reflected in

MORE REALLY SHINY
THINGS THAT
DON'T MEAN ANYTHING
RYAN GANDER

Ryan Gander's work often plays with historic
paradigms which he then gives a contemporary
humour and relevance. This sculpture is made
up of thousands of objects to form a large ball:
it's as if the core is magnetic and has attracted all the
shiny useless objects that fill a city.

The work explores ideas of public sculpture
which normally have a historic legacy or represent
the fortitude of an institution or person.
In this case, the sculpture has the scale and
materiality of a work of 'significance' but in actual
fact is simply an assortment of things that don't
really mean anything.