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Gayle Chong Kwan – interview: ‘I’ve made a connection between displays of constructed power and childlike play’
The artist talks about using sand and sugar to make historic and contemporary connections between Mauritius and the Isle of Wight and between colonial power, indentured labour, leisure and childhood
Gayle Chong Kwan interrogates legacies of extraction and exploitation and histories of oppression in her expanded and embodied art practice, using sensory experience, material objects and collective ritual to reflect on the past and envisage alternative futures.
In A Pocket Full of Sand, now at John Hansard Gallery in Southampton, themes of colonial power, indentured labour, leisure and childhood meander and crisscross through the mediums of film, sculpture and collage.
Unexpected, fruitful connections are drawn out between two islands at opposite ends of the British empire: the Isle of Wight and Mauritius, the birthplace of Chong Kwan’s father.
The London-based artist homes