“Museum of lost worlds and the kingdom of Wandaland”
Wanda Gillespie
16 June → 1 July 2006

“You fasten your seatbelt. The plane is landing. To fly is the opposite of travelling: you cross the gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in any place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time: then you reappear, in a place in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished.”
– If on a Mid Winter’s Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino

In the museum’s newest exhibition, the Kingdom of Wandaland is uncovered through newly restored plane wreck artefacts. The lost Kingdom and the boundaries of the aeroplane space blur to create an environment that plays on ‘the void’ and illusive nature of aeroplane flight. The kingdom of Wandaland’s artefacts, the museum’s replicas and scientists' theories merge to form a place, where illusion is grounded by order and logic.

Wanda Gillespie is a Melbourne based contemporary artist working in installation, photography, video and sound.