Ryan Gander

A sheet of 3 mm thick sandblasted / frosted glass, put flat on the floor covered with a circular sheet of thick plastic taped to the floor/ one hit by a hammer causes it to shatter into the form of a circle. Mounted on the wall near the broken glass 50 cm from the floor is a white wedge shelf containing a small sculpture / model from whitey sticks and mod-roc plaster bandages, that loosely resembles Cabanon Le Corbusier, Roquebrune Cap Martin, France built in 1951, a 12 x 12 ' cabin, the only building Le Corbusier built himself. It is said that the cabin was a birthday present for his wife, Yvonne, and was the building he favoured from his lifetimes work describing it as his smallest 'machine for living in'. On the floor against the wall there also sits a small pine cone, a small yucca plant, a plaster cast of a cylinder and another wedge shelf identical to the one supporting the sculpture on the wall, but this time upended sitting on the floor. Roquebrune Cap Martin overlooks the Cote d'Azur. Thirteen years after completing the cabine drowned off this coast, during a long swim. This may have been an act of suicide, his wife having died in 1957. "How nice it would be to die swimming towards the sun", he once remarked to a colleague. He also designed an austere but elegant and, of course functional, concrete tombe for Yvonne and himself and it sits in the Vieux Cimetiere at the top of the old town, the Tombe Le Corbusier, Cimetiere de Roquebrune, Cap-Martin, France 1955.