Gayle Chong Kwan — À propos — Slash Paris

Gayle Chong Kwan (born Edinburgh) is a London-based artist whose work has been exhibited and published internationally. Her work explores a contemporary archaeology of waste, remains, memory and the senses through photography, installation, video, sound, and public projects often as mise-en-scene landscapes and environments out of arrangements of waste packaging, detritus, food remains, and documentary sources. Recent exhibitions include: ’Public Dinner Event’, Museum of Contemporary African Art 1997-2002’, Tate Modern, London, 2013; ’The Golden Tide’, Estuary, Museum of London, 2013; ’Wastescape’, Southbank Centre, London, 2012; ’Memory Trace’, The Wellcome Trust, London, 2012; New Forest Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, 2011; ’The Obsidian Isle’, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, 2011; ’Memoryscape Moravia’, Centro Cultural de Moravia, Medellin, Colombia, 2009; Tales from the new world 10th Havana Biennial, Cuba, 2009; Utopia, Museu Berardo, Centro Cultural do Belem, Lisbon, 2009. Publications: ’The Grand Tour’, 2009, ’The Obsidian Isle’, 2011, and ’Invisible Twinning’, 2009. Awards: The Royal Scottish Academy Award; Vauxhall Collective Photography Award and International Fellow, Arts Council England.