Pan-National Flag

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Installation view (2010) at Audain Gallery, Vancouver (photo: Sabine Bitter) – (282 cm X 180 cm X 7 cm)
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Installation view (2010) at Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (Flag Inlaid in Wall)

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Full Flag (Digital Image)

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Detail


Biography

The contingency of normality is the focus of Reed’s artistic and textual practice. Normality can only be apprehended as a given reality through social consensus, and this consensus is inherently plastic, malleable. The play with the plasticity (potential) of the normal, both conceptually and materially, constitutes the foundation of her practice. Reed’s (often) obsessive works [...]