Artwork
Antarctic Village - No Borders, Métisse Flag
Lucy + Jorge Orta, 2007
- Ref: 5110:2100
- Materials: Lambda colour photograph backed on Dibond. Edition of 7 (3 A.P.)
- Dimensions: 180 x 120cm
- Catalogued: p. 120, Lucy + Jorge Orta Food Water Life, Princeton Architecture Press, NY. ISBN 978-1-56898-991-4
- Exhibition history: 2007 Antarctica
- Courtesy: Courtesy of the Artists
- Concept: First installed in Antarctica by Lucy + Jorge Orta during their 2007 expedition No Borders, the Antarctic Village Métisse Flag represents a kaleidoscope of different nations, according to the artists: "As if through the filter of a prism, the flag concentrates all the national colours into the sum of light, similar to the snowy white of purity and hope. All identities coexist, side by side, hand in hand. The edges blend, symbolising belonging to a larger common identity. This flag should become the flag of the new world community, to be raised as a supranational emblem of human rights.”
