Gayle Chong Kwan

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Gayle Chong Kwan, 'Atlantis', 2009

Gayle Chong Kwan, 'Atlantis', 2009

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Gayle Chong Kwan is based in London


Gayle Chong Kwan works with photography, video, sound, installation, and performance to create mythical mise-en-scene landscapes and environments out of disturbing arrangements of waste materials. Her work refers to Romanticism, masterplanning and contemporary tourism and trade to explore ideas of collective and individual memory and expanded notions of the senses. Chong Kwan has shown extensively nationally and internationally.

Solo exhibitions

  • 2011 The Obsidian Isle, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, UK
  • 2010 Sensorial Universe, Galleria Uno + Uno, Milan, Italy
  • 2009 Terroir and the Pathetic Fallacy, ArtSway, New Forest, UK

Public commissions

  • 2009 The Eye sees more than the Heart can know, Peckham Space, London, UK
  • 2009 Moravia Memoryscape, El Centro Cultural de Moravia, Medellin, Colombia
  • 2009 Folliescape, La Villette, Paris, France
  • 2007 Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Art on the Underground, London, UK

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