After Tayou’s work, another piece that became part of OCA’s permanent collection last season now further strengthens the theme of the path, ‘How we will inhabit the world?’: David Svensson’s “Home of the World”.
The environmental issue cannot be addressed solely within the closed boundaries of each nationality. What is needed is an open approach, one that goes beyond borders, dismantling our respective geographical and cultural affiliations in order to reassemble them within a perspective of dialogue with all. This is the meaning behind Svensson’s collages made with the flags of the world, which have been deconstructed and randomly recomposed.
Each individual flag thus loses its distinctive and identifying character. The lines that define our borders are merely conventions, while nature is a space that knows no limits or divisions.
