»Camouflage« 
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© Ruth Schnell; Intervention
120 x 300 cm (each)
Ten quartz green banners, flagpoles
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Installation Requirements / Space
120 x 300 cm (each)Site-specific to the Silvretta Bielerhöhe Pass
Material
Ten quartz green banners, flagpoles
Descriptions & Essays
Ruth Schnell 10-10-2021
Intervention
For the temporary intervention 'Camouflage' the ten national flags attached to flagpoles at the bus parking lot on the Bieler Höhe were exchanged for monochrome quartz green banners. Not until they were approached did they appear to detach from the colour palette of mountains, alpine flora and Silvretta lake.
National flags represent states as political entities, symbolizing their sovereignty. 'Camouflage' neutralizes the territorial claims inherent in the exposition of flags by hiding them or collectivizing them in one colour.
At the lake and the wall, which are civilizing interventions, the work, which in its colour and its motion seems like a continuation of the lake, performs a symbolic incorporation of culture into nature.
Ruth Schnell: Camouflage, 10-10-2021, in: Archive of Digital Art Intervention
For the temporary intervention 'Camouflage' the ten national flags attached to flagpoles at the bus parking lot on the Bieler Höhe were exchanged for monochrome quartz green banners. Not until they were approached did they appear to detach from the colour palette of mountains, alpine flora and Silvretta lake.
National flags represent states as political entities, symbolizing their sovereignty. 'Camouflage' neutralizes the territorial claims inherent in the exposition of flags by hiding them or collectivizing them in one colour.
At the lake and the wall, which are civilizing interventions, the work, which in its colour and its motion seems like a continuation of the lake, performs a symbolic incorporation of culture into nature.
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