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Gayle Chong Kwan's (b. Edinburgh, United Kingdom) series 'Cockaigne' is based on fourteenth-century ideas of a glutton's paradise. The resulting photographs depict a fictional landscape constructed from a single foodstuff: examining the exotic in the tourism and travel industries. The series developed out of research Kwan undertook in Mauritius (her father's homeland), observing how tourism was altering and incrementally consuming the landscape of the island. 'New Atlantis' is made from frozen butter, margarine and lard, referencing Francis Bacon's seventeenth-century utopian novel of the same name, in which seasons, plants and animals were subject to modification, and Casper David Friedrich's painting 'The Wreck of The Hope'. Kwan's work 'New Atlantis' examines how the ability to freeze food has also altered our relationship with produce.
Autograph
London
Title
New Atlantis
Date
2004
Medium
C-print
Measurements
H 100 x W 120 cm
Accession number
GCK.C.03
Acquisition method
commissioned by Autograph
Work type
Photograph
