FINANCIAL TIMES: By Rachel Spence. With his next show in the offing, artist Ryan Gander discusses the pleasures of creative deconstruction

When he was a little boy, Ryan Gander used to get up at 4.30am to wave goodbye to his father as he set off to work at a car factory. Those dawn farewells triggered Gander’s desire to be an artist. “I didn’t want to go to work to the same place every day,” he observes, in vowel-hammered tones that reveal his roots in England’s north-west.

Gander’s decision has paid off. At the age of 37, his comet-like career has won him a clutch of awards and a raft of solo exhibitions all over the world, including “Intervals”, a site-specific work installed at the Guggenheim in New York over the winter of 2010-11. He showed at the Venice Biennale in 2011 and, on the day I visited, was shortly to depart to see his latest work unveiled at the prestigious quinquennial Documenta, in Germany. His new show The Fallout of Living opens this week at the Lisson Gallery, which represents titans such as Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor.Read more