Daniela Medina Poch ■

Wiping Out My National Identity

Wiping out my National Identity

Video performance and sculpture bleached flag

Video and Fabric

3’02” and 3 x 1m

Barcelona, Spain 2014

Recognising the manipulative and belic potential of the concept of nationality, I publicly erase my national identity. By erasing the flag, a sign that historically has meant territorial conquest and patriotism, I transform a patriarchal symbol into a matriarchal act: a barefoot woman washing clothes in a public square.

The action seeks to insert itself into a legal void, since it is illegal to attempt against a national symbol, but bleaching it still is not yet regulated. The action takes place on Plaça San Felip Neri, a square surrounded by walls with marks from the civil war and on a Sunday after church, another axis of the Spanish Nation.

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