Autumn Moon over Potato Blossom Mountain, 2017
Autumn Moon over Potato Blossom Mountain was exhibited as part Absolutely Famished, a creative exploration of future food and the 22nd century marketplace curated by Dr Renee Beale at University of Melbourne’s Carlton Connect Initiative. Inspired by a 2013 image of South Korean teenagers throwing a ‘potato party’ in response to a McDonalds French fry discount, the work references the excessive consumption inherent in the images of French fries piled across the table.
The mountain landscape of icing fries, sauce, nuggets and burgers replete with ketchup waterfall in the installation juxtaposes this contemporary food phenomenon with the traditional Korean “true-view” landscape painting movement, in which Korean artists broke from Chinese traditions to focus on their own cultural identity and depiction of Korean environment. Autumn Moon over Potato Blossom Mountain provokes us to explore the humble potato and its capacity to feed us into the future.
