Gillian Bencke is an artist who examines the stories we create around objects, symbols, and language. In Us, Bencke uses the Anthropocene as both a backdrop and subject to understand our drive to collect, preserve and express our identities through personal and cultural artefacts.

Just as museums archive relics of the past, we too, adorn ourselves with symbols that speak of who we are today.

Bencke’s work uses this language of display to raise questions about the values behind our collections: what these volumes of artifacts say about us? Will they reflect care and respect or be evidence of our neglect?

We are the curators of our shared history, and the choices we make today will become tomorrow’s collections - This is Us.