Service au Drapeau

Table flags – as used in diplomatic meetings – and a chrome ventilator. The hands of a “waiter-room attendant”, white shirt and white gloves set the table (of the negotiations ?), serving and removing the flags to the rhythm of the successive dishes and flying the flags between each course.

This video is part of the mix media project “Trooping the colours” (Performance, installation, sculpture, video) which questions the concepts of nation, patriotism, submission to belonging, around the emblem which is the most representative ; the flag. Using the 3 primary colors of additive color synthesis (Red, Green, Blue) used in photography and video, as symbols of universality.