Reinterpreting objects as flags

Polish Flag Mini

The culture supplement to the news magazine "Der Spiegel" (KulturSpiegel 10/2003, pp. 16-21) contains an article on the British action artist Simon Starling. One of his artworks was buying an old (Italian-built) Fiat 126 in red colour, driving all the way to Poland, buying and including some white-coloured parts in the car, thus making a "white-red striped" car recalling the Polish flag. The project therefore was called "Flaga". The idea behind the project was to show early manifestations of globalization, namely the move of Fiat production facilities from Italy to then communist Poland in 1974.'