2011 / Object / Variable dimensions
Glass urn and white flag
Inside a glass urn, like those that preserve military victory flags, rests a white flag.
Not decorated, not raised as a monument, not elevated to glory: the symbol of peace has never received the equivalent of triumph, nor the recognition of an award.
Its appearance is always belated, when no other alternatives remain.
The white flag carries an essential paradox: it evokes defeat and surrender, but also calm and silence.
It embodies the renunciation of ego, of power, of courage as violence.
It emerges when all else has failed, and yet, in its fragility, it holds the most radical force: the possibility of halting catastrophe.
Here, preserved as a relic, the white flag becomes a monument to what is not celebrated, but sustains life.
An invitation to reconsider peace not as surrender, but as the most subversive and profoundly human act.