fiskul(p)tura
objects . installation art
Flags
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| MMC Kibla, Maribor Slovenia |
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| Bargehouse London |
Flags are sewn out of old bedding, curtains and other redundant fabric found in our family home in Croatia and brought to London after my father’s death, some years ago. The tree colours red, white and blue represent many European state flags, including Croatian and Ex-Yugoslavian ones.
Flags are to me forms of corporeal documents. The body is both absent and present – its traces imprinted as forensic marks, embedded in the very fibre of the fabric. The action of sewing becomes an act of remembering and mourning. Stitching together surplus fabric is an attempt to reconstruct but also repair emotions felt towards that what is gone: an era and its people. Washed out tricolours of a flag form a symbolic collective “skin” that envelops sense of irrevocable belonging, accentuating the fine line between the body and the state, the private and public self.
