2012 / Object / Variable dimensions
Flagpole
An empty flagpole rises in public space. Its presence incites the temptation to raise a flag—any flag, momentary, ephemeral—that will wave only until replaced in an endless cycle of substitutions.
The work thus detonates the paradox of sovereignty: the persistent illusion of occupying a territory against the radical possibility of abolishing borders.
In its emptiness, the pole represents no one and contains everything.
A monument of absence, it displaces the gesture of conquest toward another dimension: not appropriation, but renunciation.
The true conquest, it seems to say, lies not in domination, but in imagining a world without flags.