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The Land of Cockaigne  2007
December 2007, installation and event at Bloomberg SPACE, London
 

Heather & Ivan Morison's new commission for Bloomberg SPACE is the latest in a series of works which explore the commercial flower industry.

An installation of tens of thousands of individual stems, tightly packed into towering rows of industrial trolleys, slowly bloomed over ten days into a dense carpet of vivid colour. The opportunity to walk amongst such a huge mass of flowers created an intense visceral experience. However, the overwhelming beauty of the sculpture, coming directly out of a process of production as harsh and industrial as the international flower trade, was tainted with far harder and darker qualities. Superficially intoxicating, the work which began as a simple formal gesture unfolded to reveal more complicated implications of consumption, containment and fragility.

The piece can be viewed as a painting, becoming an abstract field of colour, or a sculpture, as the viewer moves in to and through the formally arranged row s, and at once a situation, one which traces a path from far off countries to the living rooms of those participating in its dispersion.

 
 
Heather & Ivan Morison The Land of Cockaigne Bloomberg SPACE    
     
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