Envelopments

When rolled up these twenty-eight different country flags expose nothing but varying shades of red. Traditionally associated with blood, sacrifice, or revolution this colour grabs one’s attention but does not communicate any specific motif. In “Envelopments”, one recognises a logic found in other works by Fayçal Baghriche that reflects on the notion of state. In « Elective purification, 2004 » for example, colours erase differences and surpass ideas of nation. At a time when nations turn inward in a search for identity, the artist appropriates national symbols and invests them with new meaning.