“The objects of Jay Gard illustrate provocatively a bypass of the different context; they are located at a crossroad of art and usefulness. This is probably the reason why his work has the capability to function in an existing everyday environment; his work is not solely meant to span a privileged space. His work is equal to us and to the objects, which we are familiar with regarding character and dimension. In a sense this character trait could be described as being social, yet at the same time anarchistic. The only now discovered functionality of an alleged furniture mutates instantaneously into a space and confronts us with a sculpture, with the fact of being art.” — Franziska Brandt