I Know I’m On Paradise Road

I Know I’m On Paradise Road embraces our risk-averse pleasuremaxxing tendencies in historic, current, and timeless heterotopias. From pleasure gardens on the outskirts of London, where audiences were dazzled with light shows and musical extravaganzas, to smoky rooms without a view.

Max King presents a new body of work that draws on research into casinos as autonomous environments designed to maximise anticipation. Here, the promise of reward is endlessly renewed while opportunities for escape are carefully reduced. Bringing the casino into dialogue with the pleasure garden, King explores the seduction of spaces in which pleasure and control become inseparable.