RYDER MOREY-WEALE

Ryder Morey-Weale (b. 1994, Eindhoven) lives and works in Marseille. He received an MA in Fine Arts from the Institut Supérieur des Arts de Toulouse, France in 2019. In 2020 he took part in a residency at Maison Salvan, Labège, France, and in 2019 he partic-ipated in a research program, École Offshore, in Shanghai, China. Previous exhibitions include: Passif Office, group show at 1016, Dingxi Road, Shanghai, China (2020); Hypertime, group show at Former Civil Defence Bunker, 700 Xianxia Road, Shanghai, China (2020); Relocation – a temporary studio, group show at Shanghai Marie’s Painting Factory, 3300 West Yan’An Road, Shanghai, China (2019); LFJDEULFIHXZUKFTIKGGRREHMD, curated by Liza Maignan, Institut Supérieur des Arts de Toulouse (2019), Residency organised by Fræme, Triangle France-Astérides & La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France, April – July 2021 and Atelier Villeneuve, Marseille August – September 2024.

Visit the artist’s exhibition at BUNGALOW here 

Website: www.rydermoreyweale.com
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Ryder Morey-Weale
SLEEPING WITH LIGHTS ON
Atelier Villeneuve, Marseille
28 August – 26 September 2024

For Sleeping with lights on, Ryder Morey-Weale presents a series of light sculptures surrounded by grafted plant works which combine various invasive species collected in and around Marseille.

Citing the heterotopic landscapes from which he collects his materials, Sleeping with lights on envisions the exhibition space at Atelier Villeneuve as a growing, invasive, and resilient ecotopia. A place where species collectively collide and hybridize under the auspices of artificial light. Insects settling on the lamps and plants growing from the sediments, anthropologically-tinted alloys become havens for new interfused synergies to arise.
The exhibition is accompanied by the poem 3 Hypotheses by Nina Hanz.

Photography by Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust