Ryan Gander: Artists Space.

Both works in London-based artist Ryan Gander's New York debut make productive use of a disconnect between sound and image. In The First Grand National, 2003, a small monitor facing the wall illuminates an empty, black-carpeted room. A color-bar test pattern on the screen casts a gently moving rainbow on the wall as an elderly Englishwoman holds forth on various methods of high-speed typing, perfume, and, predominantly, the BBC Radio 4 programming--plays, the news, the shipping forecast, Women's Hour--that is her daily companion.

A quaver in her voice, buttressed by our understanding ...

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