jarrod van der ryken
  • selected works
    • to begin to hurt (2018)
    • (no) vacancy (2017)
    • there's no telling how long i'll be here (2017)
    • blackwell street (2015)
    • empty places/with suspicion (2015)
    • desperate; moonlight (2014)
    • trying to find a way home (2014)
    • an earthly pulse in the blood (2014)
    • i hear no sound in your house (2014)
    • this tone (2014)
  • biography
  • curriculum vitae
  • selected texts
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photographic documentation by Louis Lim and Meagan Streader
empty places/with suspicion (2015)

exhibited at metro arts in brisbane, march 2015

timber, iron facia, fibre cement sheeting, paint, timber framed glass door, timber framed glass windows, fly screen, calico curtains, light, twigs and leaves, television set, mattress, performer.
8.0m x 5.0m x 3.0m

situating the viewer as an intruder to the privacy of domestic space, empty places/with suspicion challenges personal reliance on the secrecy of intimate thought and activity. for the exhibition the gallery becomes the site of a derelict home; the decaying qualities and eerie ambience of which impart a sense of hopelessness and existential belittlement.
essay by Ruth McConchie: 'temporary spaces/with suspicion'

review by Tim Walsh: 'Jarrod Van Der Ryken: Empty Places/With Suspicion'
review by Phil Brown: 'Bleak House: Desolate Work Inspires Existential Angst'