Catalog record · 目録番号 136058
Eastern Enemy
Catalog note / 解説
This set of prints is derived from Olga and Alexander Florensky's multi-disciplinary project 'Russian Trophy', 2002. This was a collection of objects from an imaginary military museum, including ramshackle sculptures and fanciful war machines made from found objects and materials, banners, flags, graphics, paintings and films.The project satirised the fortress mentality and xenophobia of the Russian Empire and its successor the Soviet Union. Russia's historical rivals are not named explicitly but alluded to with thinly disguised versions of the flags of countries such as Britain ('North-Western Enemy'), France ('South-Western Enemy') and Japan ('Eastern Enemy'). Other flags comically repres…
Image record / 画像情報
VAM · 2002 · vam
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