Cockaigne

Gayle Chong Kwan, Republic, Cockaigne (series), 2004

Cockaigne is a commission by Autograph ABP

Gayle Chong Kwan, Cockaigne (series), 2004

Adonia

Avalon

Babel

Bermudas

Brigadoon

Eldorado

Lotosland

New Atlantis

New Amazonia

Republic

Resort

Voyage to the World at the Centre of the Earth

Series of 12 c-type lambda prints, 40 x 31″

A series of twelve large-format photographs based on 14^th Century ideas of a glutton’s paradise. Each depicts a mythical landscape constructed from a single foodstuff, which appear enticing but on closer inspection verge on the repellent, the cheese in ‘Resort’ is plastic and slimy, the dried meat in ‘Babel’ beginning to sweat. Exploring the exotic in tourism, myth and Fine Art, the scenes share horizons; visually linking up into a fantastical landscape reminiscent of scenarios created by Dufour in the 19^th Century.

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Gayle Chong Kwan, Cockaigne (series), 2004