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BRECHT WRIGHT GANDER
190 H x 36 W x 36 D cm / 75 H x 14 W x 14 D in
Mixed Media
2020
"Babbitt" is the titular character in a Sinclair Lewis novel that satirizes the American bourgeoisie. Gander has for some time been interested in the relationship between victorian interior design and women's clothing. And along with that interest, he has been thinking of furniture gaining a kind of autonomy apart from us — furniture that still courses with what it has seen even after people have left the room...
BRECHT WRIGHT GANDER
190 H x 36 W x 36 D cm / 75 H x 14 W x 14 D in
Mixed Media
2020
"Babbitt" is the titular character in a Sinclair Lewis novel that satirizes the American bourgeoisie. Gander has for some time been interested in the relationship between victorian interior design and women's clothing. And along with that interest, he has been thinking of furniture gaining a kind of autonomy apart from us — furniture that still courses with what it has seen even after people have left the room...
BRECHT WRIGHT GANDER
71 H x 36 W x 19 D in / 180 H x 92 W x 48 D cm
Bronze, Copper, Resin, Fiberglass, Acrylic LEDs, Felt, Pigments
2022
BRECHT WRIGHT GANDER
15.5 W x 7 D x 6.5 H in/ 39 W x 18 D x 16 H cm
Patinated Bronze, Felt
2022
BRECHT WRIGHT GANDER
8 W x 9.5 D x 6 H in / 20 W x 24 D x 15 H cm
Patinated Bronze, Felt
2022
BRECHT WRIGHT GANDER
6 W x 7 D x 13 H in/ 15 W x 18 D x 33 H cm
Patinated Bronze, Felt
2022
BRECHT WRIGHT GANDER
12 W x 8 D x 12 H in / 30 W x 20 D x 30 H cm
Bronze, Red Wax, Lighting Elements
2022
BRECHT WRIGHT GANDER
17 W x 13 D x 27 H in / 43 W x 33 D x 69 H cm
Bronze, Copper, Resin, Fiberglass, Acrylic, LEDs, Felt, Pigments
2022
BRECHT WRIGHT GANDER
36 H x 14 W x 14 D in / 92 H x 36 W x 36 D cm
Blackened Steel, White Gypsum
2022
BRECHT WRIGHT GANDER
66 H x 66 W x 53 D cm / 26 H x 26 W x 21 D in
Aluminum
Edition
2022
BRECHT WRIGHT GANDER
86 H x 162 1/2 W x 56 D cm / 34 H x 64 W x 22 D in
Aluminum
Edition
2022
Brecht Wright Gander
A large mechanism creates continually shifting tensions in a fleshy silicone form. Light is diffused by the silicone, which evokes a flayed animal skin, cut away and stretched for tanning. Flesh Light furthers my work creating kinetic conceptual furniture, testing the firmness of distinctions between objects and bodies. The furniture machines I make tend to enact a kind of sisyphean repetitiveness, performing closed loops of action. The question of “why” is one which expands outwards from the work — ‘why does a chair walk’ refers us to the question of why we do.
95 Dia x 10 D in
243 Dia x 25.4 D cm
2022
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