“My mum has this saying, ‘there’s no pockets in the shroud’,” says artist Ryan Gander. “She’s like some kind of some suburban middle class Buddhist, and means I’m not going to get any inheritance probably, but she’s got a point.
“We understand the world by stuff. Things, articles, objects, and we always want more, more, more. Actually we should be understanding the world by events, and conversations and moments, things that we can take with us.”
His latest work, launched today at the Manchester International Festival, is called The Find. It takes the form of 200,000 coins, valueless in monetary terms, but specially minted for a sprawling display that will disperse its way all around the city and well beyond too, in the pockets of anyone who finds them.
