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PROPOSITION FOR A NEW FLAG – MEANDER2024-

The textile work Proposition for a New Flag – Meander evokes the control of waterways. The Greek term “meander” originates from the name of a winding river in Asia Minor, the Maiandros. One of the great challenges of global modernity has been ensuring river navigability, expanding arable land, meeting agricultural and industrial water demands, and reducing flood risks. This has led to the radical transformation of natural riverbeds—a process of “de-meandering” waterways shaped over millennia. Is it possible to restore river floodplains? Can we rewild overregulated drainage systems?

From a technical perspective, Proposition for a New Flag – Meander employs stamping, a printmaking technique that is a variation of block printing. Here, the printing blocks are not carved from wood but from concrete—the same material used to reinforce riverbeds. The stamp is not only a traditional tool in the textile industry but also an instrument of bureaucratic power, conferring legitimacy and validating political and economic decisions. The stamp approves. The stamp inscribes something onto us from the outside—it marks us.

And yet, in this process, the stamp repeats. Repetition can be mere duplication, a mechanical reproduction, but it also holds the potential for subtle transformation. Through repetition, we have the choice to reshape—to create new patterns. (After a text by Noémi Bíró.)

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