Anthropo-Scene

Gayle Chong Kwan's Anthropo-scene is a multi-layered installation that explores the built environment, strata and waste, in relation to the City of London. Fantastical large wall-based photographic panoramas are created from London's lost buildings and contemporary waste. Installations in the gallery recall stacks of archaeological drawers. The photographic and sculptural elements range in ratio and scale.
Chong Kwan brings together contemporary, historic and archaeological objects and materials, juxtaposing excavation and construction, ruin and renewal, and confounding their chronology in order to question what we leave to posterity .