Ryan Gander
100 Things Twice
Paper, Cardboard Box
10 x 15 x 8 cm (closed)
A Game of Typographic Memory.
A Game of conceptual Art Dominoes.
Match the cards, find pairs, draw illogical conclusions, see things differently.
An artist-book / artist-game by Ryan Gander, published on the occasion of the exhibition Ryan Gander: One Hundred Things Twice at Salzburger Kunstverein, July 2026.
HOW TO PLAY:
They said the way that I played was disorganized.
Apparently I played with toys in ways that the designer or manufacturer had not intended. It seemed like this annoyed them, but I think what they were actually saying, but hadn’t realized at the time , was that I had a curious creative mind.
A friend once explained to me that you can flick a light switch, of course, but you can also lick it, ignore it, think about it, photograph it, melt it, fire its protons around a particle accelerator, write a poem about it, pray for it, trade it for something else, recycle it and remember it, give it AI and allow it to take you for a walk on a lead. But none of those things will stop it being a light switch.
They said I played in an illogical way. ‘Inappropriate’ play is the catalyst of things without words, objects, shapes, light, shadow, signs, signifiers, patterns, traces; we see things that have not even been named by you yet. They are so abstract they have not been given a word.
—Ryan Gander
Photos: Semaine, Paris
Published by Semaine, Paris.
Designed and edited by Mia Frostner, Europa.
Edited by Ann-Marie James.
ISBN: 978-969-9399-20-6
