Private Story
Stars&Stripes
Summary
This project is ongoing.
I started it 2018.
I explore American identity through the use and fetishization of the national flag.
I started it 2018.
I explore American identity through the use and fetishization of the national flag.
Twenty years after it, the distribution of images and objects of the flag and the flag itself seems to be increasing in the US. A new cultural phenomenon is emerging - the use of the flag not only as a state symbol raised on official occasions but also its use in everyday life at the same time as its iconization and its treatment as a living being (one of the prescriptions in the Flag Code); how the Americans want to look in their own eyes, waving the values of their flag and what do they conceal or cover with it from other nations?
Is this a freedom - to choose clothes printed with the flag's colors, or does wearing a printed flag become a uniform? Do people labeled with America need to confirm their identity?!
Is it only the imperfections of capitalism that encourage the contradiction of being good in front of others and being good for yourself, your loved ones, and the values you declare, surrounding your life with flags like a fence?!
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