Polyester, stained spruce wood. Flags: 170x225 cm. Poles: 270 cm.

The title Native, Exotic, Normal / State of Emergency is taken from the names paint dealers and the cosmetics industry give skin tones, where labels like Toffee, Native, Exotic, Peach and Normal expose our view of ourselves and others. These defining labels are in the title of the flag series combined with a situation of crisis. The installation consists of six flagpoles with a flag where the cross is reversed. Inverted flags are usually an international signal of an emergency situation, but here the flags also become a protest against nationalism and call for humanism.

Included in Cool, Calm and Collected at ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark. A group show focusing on Danish contemporary art (2017).
Curated by Maria Kappel Blegvad.
Artists: A Kassen, Alexander Tovborg, Amalie Smith, Christian Falsnaes, Danh Vo, Ebbe Stub Wittrup, Elmgreen & Dragset, FOS, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Jeannette Ehlers, Jeppe Hein, Jakob Kolding, Skye Jin, Jens Haaning, Jesper Just, John Kørner, Kirstine Roepstorff, Lea Guldditte Hestelund, Lea Porsager, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Maiken Bent, Marie Søndergaard Lolk, Mette Winckelmann, Mikkel Carl, Mille Kalsmose, Morten Søndergaard, Nanna Abell, Nanna Debois Buhl, Nicolai Howalt, Nina Beier, Olafur Eliasson, Pernille Kapper Williams, Peter Land, Rikke Benborg, Ruth Campau, Sergej Jensen, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Sophia Kalkau, Sophie Dupont, Superflex, Søren Thilo Funder, Tal R, Torben Ribe, Tove Storch, Trine Søndergaard, Troels Sandegård and Tue Greenfort.

Included in the group show KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU, at Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Austria (2019).
Curated by Void & Co.
Artists: Tiril Hasselknippe, Ahmed Umar, Jeff Olsson, Maria Meinild, Ditte Knus Tønnesen, Ronja Svaneborg, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang.

Photo: Anders Sune Berg + Ronja Svaneborg.