Any Colour You Like

Opening on Thursday October 23th at 5pm Exchange with Studio LET 777

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For a second consecutive year, LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE pursues an exchange with the Studio LET 777 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. This year the Croatian artist Vedran Perkov has been selected for the site-specific residency from October 6 to November 16, 2014. The opening of the residency will take place October 23th at 5pm. In this installation work entitled: « Any colour you like » Perkov addresses the notion of identity: cultural, and individual identity as well as political identity. Does the flag we chose to express our identity really define us? What would we have to say if we stood at a rostrum facing a flag? Transforming LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE IN a venue of free speech, Vedran builds seven rostrums each one equipped with a microphone facing seven different-color flags. Each flag color embodies a distinct political orientation. The public is invited to choose a flag and stand at the rostrum to speak … or not. This exercise reminds us slightly of the free speakers standing in soapboxes in London’s Hyde Park. Vedran’s more solemn variation of citizen’s free speech takes on none the less a whimsical aspect with the splashes of the seven colors of seven flags: from Hyde to Park Luna Park. Perkov hand us the required tools for public speaking, will we speak?

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