Days of Our Lives. 2009
Digital photographs on coated canvas

Series of reenacted photographs or tableaux vivant with models from Europe’s former colonies in Africa, Middle East and Asia, based on French paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts (Lyon).

Art museums all over Europe in their architecture splendour have historically been the guardians of this Europeanness. Their art collections of paintings and sculptures are to preserve for eternity iconic moments of European culture and history. But Europe has changed and is still changing. With large migrant populations from former colonies who have made Europe their homes, notions such as Frenchness or Britishness or Germaness are not only in constant flux but needs to be reenvisioned. What constitutes "Europeaness" now?
(From a statement by the artist)

Please see:
Wong Hoy Cheong: Days of Our Lives
The complete statement by the artist, all the photos of this series. Nafas Art Magazine, Sept. 2009