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: Detail from Boredom, a series of nine canvases, each 8" x 8" x 3", acrylic and soda pop on canvas.

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.