BLΑΝΚ SYMBOL | CHICAGO 2004

About This Project

An individual work, an installation in space with materials a ready-made object (flagpole), and a textured (paper). With 2 meters height and width in varying dimensions according to the opening of the paper (max 1,5 m). It was created and presented for the exhibition The Art of Artist Statement at the Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center in Chicago, curated by Georgia Kotretsos and Maria Paschalidou from February to April 2005.

Keywords and key concepts: flag, symbol, wandering, situation, void, identity

This object is not the flag of truce, as very easily one may think. It was made on the basis of the situation of the wonderer, the roamer, someone which is in constant movement between States and continents. It stems from a personal need, and it was created while I was in an analogous situation between Europe and the United States of America. While being in this situation, a person in order to accept the new material of reality that takes place around her/him, there is a need to create empty space. The individual is exempt, in a way, even temporarily, from its various identities that are imposed by their respective areas-ethnic, racial, class, and family. This symbol indicates the freedom of choice and paths that acquires the person, being in this situation of the wanderer.