
New Picturesque (Angkor Series)
A vintage postcard serves as the foundation for Gaillard's layered collage, merging historical imagery with contemporary intervention to create an unsettling dialogue between past and present. Drawing on the ancient temple complex of Angkor as its subject, the work examines themes of ruin, tourism, and the romanticized Western gaze upon distant civilizations. Gaillard's manipulation of the found postcard format challenges the picturesque tradition, exposing the constructed and often exploitative nature of how historic sites are framed and consumed.
- Medium
- collage on vintage postcard
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
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December 9, 2015
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