From the catalogue: Throughout the exhibition, we see artists reinvent boundaries both territorial and conceptual. Perhaps the most idiosyncratic of these models is the concept of Fook Island, created by South African artist Walter Battiss and his collaborators. This utopian "island" is in some ways a composite of the many real islands he has visited, including Zanzibar, the Seychelles, Madagascar, Fiji, Hawaii, Samoa, the Greek Isles, and the Comoros. Blending together into an imagined space, Fook Island developed its own visual language replete with its own alphabet, maps, portraits of its inhabitants, taxonomies of local plants, and every currency, stamps, and driver's licences and passports.

Ref: GB/30372