Left: The artist, standing in front of Love Forever and Resistance is Futile, both 6' x 6', acrylic on canvas. Right: Another installation view. Below: Boredom, a series of nine canvases, each 8" x 8" x 3", acrylic and soda pop on canvas. All photos taken by Jamie Sinclair.

Using colours that are designed commercially to trigger desire, Adele Chong presents grand paintings that romanticize the landscape of modern existence. Through a systematic approach to painting and using candy, comics and other pretty objects as source material, Chong both examines the predicament of the individual self-situated within the confines of a man-made society, and embraces it.