Gayle Chong Kwan: Wastescape - weaving landscapes of politics, dairy and waste

Auckland Arts Festival

09 March 2019 - 24 March 2019
  • Gayle Chong Kwan

    Wastescape - weaving landscapes of politics, dairy and waste, 2019 (install view)
    Silo 6, Auckland
    commissioned by Te Tuhi, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Invisible Dust, UK, in partnership with Humber Museums Partnership
    photo by Andrew Kennedy

  • Gayle Chong Kwan

    Wastescape, 2019 (install view)
    Silo 6, Auckland
    commissioned by Te Tuhi, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Invisible Dust, UK, in partnership with Humber Museums Partnership
    photo by Andrew Kennedy

  • Gayle Chong Kwan

    Wastescape - weaving landscapes of politics, dairy and waste, 2019 (install view)
    Silo 6, Auckland
    commissioned by Te Tuhi, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Invisible Dust, UK, in partnership with Humber Museums Partnership
    photo by Andrew Kennedy

  • Gayle Chong Kwan

    River Redress, 2019 (install view)
    series of 12 headresses, photographic paper, glue and milk paste
    commissioned by Te Tuhi, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Invisible Dust, UK, in partnership with Humber Museums Partnership
    photo by Sam Hartnett

  • Gayle Chong Kwan

    River Redress, 2019 (install view)
    series of 12 headresses, photographic paper, glue and milk paste
    commissioned by Te Tuhi, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Invisible Dust, UK, in partnership with Humber Museums Partnership
    photo by Sam Hartnett

  • Gayle Chong Kwan

    River Redress, 2019 (install view)
    series of 12 headresses, photographic paper, glue and milk paste
    commissioned by Te Tuhi, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Invisible Dust, UK, in partnership with Humber Museums Partnership
    photo by Sam Hartnett

  • Gayle Chong Kwan

    River Redress, 2019 (install view)
    series of 12 headresses, photographic paper, glue and milk paste
    commissioned by Te Tuhi, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Invisible Dust, UK, in partnership with Humber Museums Partnership
    photo by Sam Hartnett

  • Gayle Chong Kwan

    River Redress, 2019 (install view)
    series of 12 headresses, photographic paper, glue and milk paste
    commissioned by Te Tuhi, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Invisible Dust, UK, in partnership with Humber Museums Partnership
    photo by Sam Hartnett

Silo 6, Wynyard Quarter, Auckland
Sun – Thu 11am – 5pm
Fri – Sat 11am – 7:30pm

Wastescape is an immersive installation by British artist Gayle Chong Kwan that explores New Zealand’s relationship with food, especially dairy, through craft techniques and waste. The work employs thousands of used plastic milk bottles and photography to create otherworldly landscapes.

Chong Kwan is a British artist whose photographs, sculptures, events and installations are exhibited internationally, both in galleries and in the wider public realm. Her work explores simulacra and the sublime through constructed environments, imagined futures, ritual experiences and sensory registers.

Wastescape is commissioned by Te Tuhi, Auckland, in partnership with art and environmental organisation Invisible Dust, UK, and the Humber Museums Partnership, UK.

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