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Description

London Fields is the 'Chantilly' of 21st century London, with young desirables flocking to East London over the last decade. After two centuries of neglect - the wealthy moved West - London Fields is today rapidly becoming an affluent and very desirable place again - in fact what it was in the 18th century, its proximity to the city an influencing factor. It is a recreational and leisure park with numerous sport facilities. In the summertime an interesting social phenomenon takes place: Londoners - mostly young and beautiful hipsters, some in fact resembling characters from the Commedia dell’arte - congregate. The place rapidly turns into a hedonistic park of bacchanalial barbecuing, drinking, pill popping, loving, DJing, dancing… till the early hours of the morning.The ‘Season’ usually starts mid-April and can stretch to mid-October if the weather stays clement.
The series presents a phantasmagoric world evoking the intimate, stylised revelling that took place in 18th century fêtes galantes in Chantilly (France) echoed by 21st century London Fields ‘Season’. The pursuit of pleasure, even in the face of economic upheavals, Coronavirus pandemic and other X-it nasties, has gained an almost political significance.