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Blue tarpaulin and darkened steel
150h x 250w cm (flag) / 150h x 3 diameter (pole)
View from La Biennale d'Architecture d'Orléans marcher dans le rêve d'un autre, 2017
View from La Biennale d'Architecture d'Orléans marcher dans le rêve d'un autre, 2017
In the installation Vexil, a pavilion-like standard acts as a symbol of identity. On a white wall, a black steel pole stands out, holding a flag made of blue synthetic tarp: “A standard made from protective tarp—a material that also serves as shelter for thousands of homeless people and that accompanied research for two years in the Jungle of Calais. This flag is, in a way, a tribute to the Calais camp, transformed into a global city before being destroyed.”
The use of this reclaimed material carries strong symbolic weight, highlighting its specific functions: shelter, urgency, precarity, and fragility. The blue flag, its color evoking the sea, the horizon, and the infinite, becomes an emblem that asserts and seeks identity, striving for recognition.