We are delighted that Gayle Chong Kwan's 2024 FVU-commissioned work A Pocket Full of Sand features in ‘Politics of the Gaze’, a solo exhibition over both sites of Galerie Alberta Pane. 

The exhibition brings together two distinct yet interconnected works that explore colonial histories, expanded senses, mythical creatures, and the artist’s own severe myopia.

A Pocket Full of Sand (2024) is a multi-part installation of moving-image work, photography, sculpture and drawings, that investigates the colonial architectures of power, extractive tendencies, and ecological deep time through the islands of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean, and the Isle of Wight, off the coast of the UK.

In ‘Cyclops’ (2024) Gayle Chong Kwan uses photography, sculpture, and print to explore medieval ideas of vision, digital surveillance, the art canon, and more-than-human visuality in totemic images, talismans, and mythical creatures.

More information: https://albertapane.com/

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A Pocket Full of Sand has been commissioned and supported by John Hansard Gallery and Film and Video Umbrella.