‘My own private Angkor’ 2007–ongoing
Simryn Gill | 'My own private Angkor' 2007–ongoing (detail) | 25 gelatin silver photographs, edition of 1 | 39 x 38 cm each (image) | Image courtesy: The artist, BREENSPACE, Sydney and Tracy Williams Ltd, New York | © The artist
‘My own private Angkor’ 2007–ongoing
The stone temple complex of Angkor Wat was built in the twelfth century at the height of the Khmer empire in present-day Cambodia. It was brought to European attention in the mid nineteenth century as the ruin of a ‘lost’ civilisation, buried deep in the jungle, although it was consistently known to the Khmers and was inhabited by monks at the time. These photographs were taken at a housing estate in Port Dickson that was abandoned in the 1980s before completion, and is gradually becoming overgrown and returning into the surrounding landscape.
