My Own Private Angkor
2007-2009
Print, 90 x (39.37 x 37.46 cm).
Materials: 90 silver gelatin prints
Collection: Courtesy of the Artist and Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York.
Simryn Gill documented the compositions of glass plates left behind by people stealing aluminium window frames in a deserted housing estate in her hometown. The series can be seen as depicting the aftermath of a collapse, in this case the bursting of a speculative real estate bubble in the 1990s.
