80,000 litres of recycled water are used to flood a restaurant in the debut London solo show from Danish art collective Superflex
Exhibition preview: Flooded McDonald's, The South London Gallery, London, January 16 2009 - March 1 2009
Anti-capitalists may want to factor a visit to The South London Gallery into their revolutionary schedules this month.
Danish collective Superflex – a network of artists questioning social norms who have been known to provide gas for families, offer free beer via incomprehensible Scandinavian web portals and exhibit internationally – are presenting a new film work in which a branch of McDonald’s gradually floods with water.
The exhibition aims to highlight the impact of environmental change
Built from scratch in a week, the lifesize set was flooded with 80,000 litres of water (collected and recycled, moralist attendees will be relieved to learn) and filmed using Red camera technology, allowing extremely high quality images to be created without the complications and expense of traditional film.
Furniture is lifted up by the flooding, and trays of food and drink float around as electrics short circuit amongst the submergence. The obvious connotation lies in what they call "the impotence of large multinationals in the face of climate change,” but Superflex are anxious to achieve this without being didactic.
The lifesize set was built from scratch in a week
Supported by their countrymen in the form of Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, The Danish Film Institute, The Royal Danish Embassy and The Danish Art Council’s Committee for International Visual Art, this ambitious debut solo show in London by the group looks unlikely to be their last.
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