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Artworks
Bruna Esposito b. 1960
Oltremare II, 2006C-print140 x 93 cm
55 1/8 x 36 5/8 inEdition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofsThe 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.