There is only a very thin line between real presence and suggested presence.
“Lester does not designate a correct way to walk amongst his works. Only an invitation." — Lee Ambrozy
“You go in thinking there will be a twist, and you come out knowing the twist is in you” — Raimundas Malasauskas
At a time when the construction of the narrative and visual message have been hollowed out, to propose ways to observe, digest, read and write, is of utmost importance.
“Lester cuts a room as if it were a film, and many of his installation works can be conceived as spatial edits, introducing temporal movement to an otherwise fixed or static environment.” — Aaron Schuster
"Mnemonic narratives condense in space, capturing and architecting temporality and memory." —Philippe Pirotte
"I have spoken about my work as places where one is IN and then has to reason or associate him or herself OUT." —Gabriel Lester, in conversation with Graham Gussin
