These beautiful images are constructed from foodstuffs, which are verging on the repellent. The personal and global politics of food has been a major focus of Chong Kwan’s work to date and here one is reminded of butter-mountains, cheap factory farmed products and BSE. Given the references to tourism and paradise, these images also carry connotations of western excess at the expense of the global south. Chong Kwan’s complex photographs remind us that contemporary dreams of pleasure, ease and satiation are similarly ambivalent.
