Ryan Gander

Is this guilt in you too – (The study of a car in a field) There is a fear in the ‘art spectator’ that is not in a child. It’s difficult for most spectators to read a work honestly and unpretentiously. This inhibition is associated with knowledge of the context in which the work is shown (art world), in many conceptual works it is often not necessary to understand clever layers of knowingness and references to art history to appreciate the work. It is human nature to ask questions and to make sense of ambiguity. A child when confronted by a new experience is inquisitive, frank and eager to discover and understand. They are without any stigmas. The work ‘Is this guilt in you too’ is therefore a bit like an illustration of itself, it rhetorically speaks of rhetoric’s, like an art work for beginners, ‘Thea’, the ten year old, beats you to every speculation and interpretation of the video of the car in the field, her stealth is fuelled by her sincerity. She shows us that there are no hard and fast answers only infinite possibilities of personal trajectories. She shows us in many ways that we are looking for something that has already found us, the answer lie in the questioning. Ryan Gander