Ryan Gander: Heralded as the New Black

Heralded as the New Black is a new body of work made during a Ryan Gander's 'year off' from exhibiting, and including a number of works made exclusively for the South London Gallery.

The exhibition consists of entirely new installations, interventions, films and by-products which derive meaning from their location and context. The exhibition is a diverse and playful investigation into facets of the making, presentation, history and documentation of art and design.

Gander harnesses art's potential to communicate and creates work in various written, spoken and visual languages. His practice adopts both familiar styles, such as cartoons and maps, as well as more avant-garde aesthetics. By appropriating existing art and design work to generate new pieces, Gander creates fictional histories, traced from real historical moments and turning points in visual culture. As such the exhibition thematically investigates notions of copyright, intellectual property and the issues surrounding ideas of documentation and collaboration, originality and meaning.

Humour underpins much of Gander's work, rescuing it from mere 'institutional critique', engaging us with its dead-pan, self-deprecating knowingness. It is as rigorous as it is strangely, accessible. A catalogue, the first to articulate a critical in-depth examination of his practice accompanies the exhibition.

The exhibition runs from Thursday April 24th to Sunday June 22nd. The gallery is open Tuesday to Sunday from 12pm to 6pm.

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How to get there

The closest tube station is a bus ride away at Elephant and Castle.

If travelling by bus the 12, 36, 171, 345 and 436 all serve the area.