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- 2010
- flag fabric, cord, paper models
- 120 × 120 cm
For the 6th Berlin Biennale in 2010, Marcus Geiger put up a flag on top of the building at Oranienplatz 17, which served as one of the exhibition venues. This frayed flag could be viewed as symbolizing a revolutionary act or perhaps as the result of vandalism. Geiger’s minimalist works interrogate the art system along with its inherent code and mechanisms. Particularly in Berlin, a red flag might connote numerous things such as activist groups and Red Cells, a worker’s state, or bygone communist ideas. Even so, none of these implications were applicable to Geiger’s work. The fact that it was torn on one side made clear that whatever connotation it had wad attributable merely to a faded history—much like the building itself, which had stood empty for ten years before being turned into a contemporary art venue. W.S.