Flags
ONE of Liverpool’s most prominent disused buildings has been covered in a wall of burning flags for the city’s Biennial arts festival.
Hong Kong-born artist Will Kwan has created an installation of 36 banners made from news agency photographs of flag burning protest around the world.
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Currator Lorenzo Fusi, who looks after the Scandinavian Hotel at the corner of Nelson Street and Duke Street, which has been decorated with various national flags depicting flames as part of Liverpool's Biennial
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Currator Lorenzo Fusi, who looks after the Scandinavian Hotel at the corner of Nelson Street and Duke Street, which has been decorated with various national flags depicting flames as part of Liverpool's Biennial
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Currator Lorenzo Fusi, who looks after the Scandinavian Hotel at the corner of Nelson Street and Duke Street, which has been decorated with various national flags depicting flames as part of Liverpool's Biennial
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Currator Lorenzo Fusi, who looks after the Scandinavian Hotel at the corner of Nelson Street and Duke Street, which has been decorated with various national flags depicting flames as part of Liverpool's Biennial
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Currator Lorenzo Fusi, who looks after the Scandinavian Hotel at the corner of Nelson Street and Duke Street, which has been decorated with various national flags depicting flames as part of Liverpool's Biennial
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Currator Lorenzo Fusi, who looks after the Scandinavian Hotel at the corner of Nelson Street and Duke Street, which has been decorated with various national flags depicting flames as part of Liverpool's Biennial
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Currator Lorenzo Fusi, who looks after the Scandinavian Hotel at the corner of Nelson Street and Duke Street, which has been decorated with various national flags depicting flames as part of Liverpool's Biennial
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Currator Lorenzo Fusi, who looks after the Scandinavian Hotel at the corner of Nelson Street and Duke Street, which has been decorated with various national flags depicting flames as part of Liverpool's Biennial
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Currator Lorenzo Fusi, who looks after the Scandinavian Hotel at the corner of Nelson Street and Duke Street, which has been decorated with various national flags depicting flames as part of Liverpool's Biennial
They hang on the front of the Scandinavian Hotel, next to Liverpool’s Chinese Arch.
Lorenzo Fusi, Biennial curator, said the art work can be read on many levels, depending on where you are viewing it.
He said: “The idea is that from a distance it will appear to be a very cosmopolitan building that is all-accepting of different nations.
“When you get closer to it, you can see the flames on the flags and closer still you realise they are photographs taken of flags actually being burnt at different times in history at different places in the world.”
Images used for the art work, called Flame Test, have been taken from the archives of Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France Presse and other news agencies.
It aims to remind us of how the representations of our most potent symbolic acts of protest, resistance and dissent are reconfigured by the media.
