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Artwork

World Flag

Artist/Creator
Antonia Hirsch (Artist)
Date
2009
ID #
BG6348

Physical Description

Medium
digital print, brass
Support
Dimensions
78.5 cm 130.5 cm (Object)
Object Description
In World Flag, Antonia Hirsch continues to play with international systems, symbols and methods of measurement in her work, testing the limits of how a global society can be considered and represented. Commissioned for the 2009 exhibition Friends of the Divided Mind at the Royal College of Art (London), World Flag composed of over 200 national standards, encompassing all sovereign countries worldwide. In this universal flag, the designs of single nations blur and morph into one, destabilizing the hegemonic character of the national flag.

History

Collection
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Credit Line
Purchased with support from the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Acquisitions Fund, 2024
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