ISAAC CHONG WAI
Artist

Flakturm and the White Flag, 2016

Flakturm and the White Flag, 2016
Isaac Chong Wai
Print on fabric (Paris Chiffon (poly) 40g)
200 x 134cm.

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Flakturm and the White Flag, 2016
Isaac Chong Wai
Print on fabric
200 x 134cm.

Isaac Chong Wai’s “Flakturm and the White Flag” is a semi transparent fabric with the image of himself holding a white flag upside down in front of a bunker built by the Nazis in Vienna. After the war, the bunker could not be destroyed, as its eradication would cause massive demolition of the surroundings. Pondering the weight of history, the bunker and the white flag, Chong chose one of the lightest materials, a white flag, to reciprocate the heaviness of the past and its mark in our time. Is it a flag which descends from the past? Or is it a flag which is prepared to go up in the future? Where are our enemies now?