'Ryan Gander: I’ve Fallen Foul of My Desire' at Camden Arts Projects, London, United Kingdom
18 September 2025
From 15 October 2025 – 18 January 2026, Camden Arts Projects presents ‘Ryan Gander: I’ve Fallen Foul of My Desire’. Time and value are at once fleeting, elastic, distracting, and inevitable, and form the central subject of the latest exhibition by Ryan Gander. Referencing humanity’s ongoing obsession with the accumulation of “stuff”, the exhibition brings together new and recent sculptures, animatronics, and installations, exploring how we perceive, distort, and inhabit time and how imagination can transform our relationship to it.
“The artworks remind us that we are in charge of our own destiny, our agency and our time—factors that are more important than the things that are dictated to us by society and tradition,” Gander notes. “The power is in your imagination, and you have the power to change your perception.”
At the centre of the exhibition is The Storyteller: The sense that you are a part of a flow of a thing (2025), in which an animatronic harvest mouse emerges from a hole in the wall to deliver a philosophical monologue in the voice of the artist’s daughter. Reflecting on identity,
commodification, and possibility, the mouse becomes the conscience of the exhibition, whispering to visitors about uncertainty and that imagination needs to be seen as an essential resource.
Find out more via Camden Arts Projects.
Image: © Ryan Gander, Courtesy Lisson Gallery.
