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BRECHT WRIGHT GANDER
61 H x 77 W x 36 D cm / 24 H x 30 W x 14 D in
Mixed Materials
Unique Piece
2021
In American suburbs, one typology of room in which a family gathers in the "den." This is often a carpeted room with a television. It is where family is meant to recreate — a kind of extra casual living room that may have something like a pool table in it. It has all the associations of hypocritical normalcy for which our suburbs are now famous. "The den" is where leisure sprawls after making its way from the dining room to the living room and then sinking deeper towards a coma — and it may well be where a dad hides his heroine. Or where the older brother does something unspeakable to his siblings. This quality of plush unease — like beige carpet laid over bloodstains — is what I was trying to capture here.
BRECHT WRIGHT GANDER
61 H x 77 W x 36 D cm / 24 H x 30 W x 14 D in
Mixed Materials
Unique Piece
2021
In American suburbs, one typology of room in which a family gathers in the "den." This is often a carpeted room with a television. It is where family is meant to recreate — a kind of extra casual living room that may have something like a pool table in it. It has all the associations of hypocritical normalcy for which our suburbs are now famous. "The den" is where leisure sprawls after making its way from the dining room to the living room and then sinking deeper towards a coma — and it may well be where a dad hides his heroine. Or where the older brother does something unspeakable to his siblings. This quality of plush unease — like beige carpet laid over bloodstains — is what I was trying to capture here.
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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