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.
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 [...]