Ryan Waller is a partner at Other Means, a Brooklyn-based graphic design studio working with architects, artists, curators, editors, institutions, and schools.
Formal Economy presents sculptural works, drawings and collages as visual narratives and fictional landscapes, within chapters on public sphere, surface, flexibility, waste and water world hedonism. Sculptures and drawings get placed back into the urban environment which they derive from, creating a heightened / saturated version of the familiar public sphere. Interspersed with exhibition documentation, the line between carefully constructed installations and the everyday environment is blurred. The other topics each have a dedicated building in the form of architectural models and plans, as appropriations or parodies. These provide both a site and a framework, which is then occupied and…