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Stories in the making

The New World navigates between the flags of the Old World (2018)

1/10/2022

 
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This unconventional binding structure is known as a flag book, and the content itself is also comprised of flags as well as motifs from coats of arms. Every flag has been modified through the addition of a motif from another flag while the coats of arms have been reconfigured into new forms and alliances. The work challenges the notion of inviolable national symbols and cultural identities, instead acknowledging that every nation and culture has evolved over time from multiple generations of migrations and hybrid cultural influences. The vintage collage material was sourced from redundant Estonian encyclopaedias during an artist residency at the Estonian Printing and Paper Museum, Tartu, in 2017. It is fitting that a number of the flags themselves are now redundant following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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