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Ryan Gander

Ryan Gander is an artist whose work ranges from installations, sculptures and photographs to performative lectures, publications, inventions and interventions. Gander examines the conditions of art production and the cognitive process of the perception of art. His body of works forms a labyrinth of inter-related narratives often based
on real incidents or characters or existing artworks. 'Absence' plays a central role in Gander's work and lends the works an enigmatic aura. It invites the viewer to re-establish a story's hidden character or object's possible function and by that illuminates the process of making meaning of a work of art.

I really like how this guy presents his work and is very determined and doesn't let his disability stop him from doing what he enjoys. I also like his work, its simple but has got so much behind the work.  For example :
 

 This piece is called "Robbed us with the sight of what we should have known (2005)". This work is an installation consisting of three major elements. The first is a set of cork panels that are displayed on a wall in a large rectangular composition.The cork panels were originally installed as a pin board in the Ganders studio, and are imprinted with the sun-bleached outlines of the documents, notes, photographs and other research materials that were once pinned to them. as part of this installation the panels are re-organised into a random arrangement so that the outlines appear as a pattern of fragmented shapes. The second element of the work is a stack of newspapers. The page on top of the stack shows a crossword puzzle created by the Gander, the clues for which lead to the construction of the word ‘mitim’. This word was invented by Gander and is a palindrome – a word consisting of a sequence of letters that reads the same forwards as it does in reverse.  The third component of the installation is a photograph of a council estate in Hackney, London. In the foreground of the photograph is a milestone or stumbling block that Gander made from remixed concrete using debris from famous modernist structures that had begun to fall into disrepair, including Ernö Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower in Kensington and Berthold Lubetkin’s Penguin Pool at London Zoo.

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