Pan-National Flag
Installation view (2010) at Audain Gallery, Vancouver (photo: Sabine Bitter) - (282 cm X 180 cm X 7 cm)
Installation view (2010) at Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (Flag Inlaid in Wall)
Full Flag (Digital Image)
Detail
2009
Digital Print on Industrial Grade Flag Fabric
250 cm X 150 cm | Framed: 282 cm X 180 cm X 7 cm
Pan-national Flag is comprised of the linear structure of all internationally recognized nation-state flags juxtaposed on top of one another. The drawing, as such, produces an imbroglio of nation-state graphic ideology, where a complex black ‘whole’ emerges.
Plurinaming / Polyphony
The practice of multiple naming began in 2001 as a by-product of physical displacement, and as an adaptive game in negotiating foreign cultural/linguistic contexts. The name is acquired after a period of acquaintanceship with a “local”, and as a gift, cannot be refused or negotiated. Names are not an alias, but rather a compounding of the original name, as such they are notated as follows:
Pia Fuchs deutsche Identität von Patricia Reed.