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12 January 2009
This is, in fact, a scene from an arthouse film in which a Danish collective meticulously built their own McDonald's - and then flooded it.
Furniture is lifted up by the water, trays of food and drink start to float around, electrics short-circuit and eventually the space becomes completely submerged.
Viewers to the South London Gallery in Camberwell for the next two months will be able to view the drama in the 20-minute film, Flooded McDonald's.
Margot Heller, the gallery's director who commissioned the work, said: "I thought it was a brilliant idea. The film doesn't point fingers or take a specific position so it's up the individual watching the film to ask questions.
"But it's not something that anyone has seen before."
Ms Heller said it made her think of issues such as flooding, from the 2004 Asian tsunami to New Orleans, climate change and global corporations.
The work is the second in a planned series of films by the Superflex collective - Rasmus Nielsen, Jakob Fenger and Bjornstjerne Christiansen - who have been working together since 1993.
The show at SLG, which has a track record of working with international artists, is their first solo exhibition in London.
As part of the gallery's outreach work, a screening of the film will be held in the nearby Sceaux Gardens estate with an accompanying debate about climate change.
The film is on show at the gallery in Peckham Road from Friday until 1March with no admission charge.
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