Bruna Esposito b. 1960
Oltremare III, 2006
C-print
100 x 66 cm
39 3/8 x 26 in
39 3/8 x 26 in
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
The image of an upside-down white flag, submerged in water. Deprived of its conventional semantic charge, the flag no longer signals surrender or allegiance; instead, it gestures toward a utopian...
The image of an upside-down white flag, submerged in water. Deprived of its conventional semantic charge, the flag no longer signals surrender or allegiance; instead, it gestures toward a utopian condition without borders—or, more precisely, toward the dissolution of identity into a state of integral neutrality. Against systems founded on rigid territorial affiliations, the principle of freedom that governs international waters proposes a tangible alternative. The high seas, understood as res communis omnium, constitute a common good belonging to everyone, a space beyond ownership, nationhood, and exclusion.