Opening : 26 September 2020,18:00 at OFFBEAT BOX
Period : 26 Sept - 18 Oct 2020

 

Giles Ryder will be exhibiting new neon works – primarily wall works and sculptural works. For the Offbeat Box he will be further expanding on his long-term exploration and use of neon light, his interest in space (in all of its broad areas), popular culture, music, sci-fi, nightlife, intergenerational mess, anxiety, and lost histories all mixed together with a dystopian and utopian vision.

The works present bold, colorful intertwining forms locking in loosely configured loops, creating a new atmospheric environment. Electric lines are drawn and explicitly at play within the space. At one point the works deliver a feeling of being ‘the bold and bright’, on another side the neon brings about a sense of nostalgia of things that have past – of lost places and spaces. Our world is governed by new spaces that use algorithmic powers. The world of the internet was once a ‘free and liberating’ source, now utterly banal, a capsized boat of marketplace and fast paced interactions, monitoring devices and loose expressions of no great depth. Transient digital markers and content last about as fast as the meal you get from your 7-11. New circumstances have forced us into claustrophobic spaces interiors devoid of life and nil nightlife. The marketing scheme of working from home being a great liberation of ‘labor’ and of ‘social’ time, has been sold off to a savvy generation that working from anywhere, any place has made no borders between workplace and personal space let alone an end point for work to ‘END’. Meanwhile as many are without work, we are confronted with another new pressure to keep the work we have. All catapulted into a fast track space via a virus – giving governments and employers paramount control over human “resources”. These neon works display the anxiety and misculture we now are burdened with while also highlighting the disconnection we have created from ourselves as well.

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About Artist :
Giles Ryder(Born 1972, Brisbane), Graduated from Master of Arts, Kunsthochschule Berlin, currently is a lecturer in Bangkok University, he uses the combination of the potently industrial materials from his industrial painting background in conjunction with the influences of modern life, produces his very specific aesthetic. He uses the hard, reflective surfaces of advertising and consumerism and presents this material in a contrasting position. His works often have subtle perceptual shifts whether it is in his light installations, paintings or use of materials. For Ryder it is not a question of materiality or formal categories it is the associated meanings that are culturally embedded in matter as well as the experiential qualities of site, language, space and the formal reference points that are positioned in an off-kilter fashion. Ryder works across media and medium, from high finish lacquer works to light works, mirrors and free formed foam works, this is all presented and situated within his spatial installations that react to the minimal rendering of space and to that of the object, presenting minimal works with maximal energy.
https://www.offbeatboxgallery.com/gilesryder