THE WHITE FLAGS
The White Flags - 1
Moscow, 2015
The White Flags - 2
Moscow, 2015
The White Flags - 3
Moscow, 2015
The White Flags, 162 Sec., loop, Moscow, 2015
THE WHITE FLAGS
The flag - in its most common use - symbolizes a nation or country. It is a powerful patriotic symbol and their strongest signaling character may be the color.
On Victory Day the city of Moscow was full of flags. Red ones, white-blue-red ones and white, blue, red ones. Wolfgang Lehrner focused only on the white ones, purposely enhancing the ambiguous interpretation created through his selection.
By leaving out the other flags, the single color gets a totally new meaning and the image moves away from reality directly into fiction. This fictional scene as result might be just a starting point, which invites the viewer to rethink the symbol of representation – through the power of aesthetics.
Judith Stöckl & Giulia Tamiazzo, 2015