Politics of the Gaze (2025)

Gayle Chong Kwan presents two distinct yet interconnected works that explore the politics of the gaze through colonial histories, non-human senses, mythical creatures, and the artist’s own severe visual myopia. In Cyclops (2024) Chong Kwan uses photography, sculpture, and print to explore digital surveillance, art history, and expanded visuality in talismans, amulets,  totemic images and mythical creatures.

A Pocket Full of Sand (2024) is a multipart installation that investigates the colonial gaze, architectures of power, extractive tendencies, and ecological deep time through the islands of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean and the Isle of Wight in the UK.