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“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.” Simone Weil (1942)

Flags are a nation’s “brand mark” and as such, in history as well as in current times, they have been and can be misused or become subject of positive or negative reinterpretation. They can convey a political statement, glorify a colonial past or become the symbol of freedom and individuality.

By changing all 193 Flags of the UN Member states into the national colours of Luxembourg and recreating a new red white and blue global flag, Brothers and Sisters explores the questions of identity, homeland, culture, origin and territorialisation.

What is our individual identity and what does the symbol of a flag mean in a world where more and more people are chronically mobile and routinely displaced, inventing homes and homelands in the absence of territorial national bases? Don’t we all have similar roots, regardless where we were born?

And finally, aren’t we all brothers and sisters?

MONOGRAM is a boutique design company based in Luxembourg. Their work spans almost three decades of experience in graphics and identity, publications, packaging, exhibition and signage design for a wide range of clients in the private and public sector. The quality of their work is shaped by their passion for thoughtful design and their personal commitment to each of their projects.

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In the context of the European Design Festival 2023, Cercle Cité in collaboration with Greylight Projects (Heerlen, NL) proposes an off-site exhibition What the Flag?! in Luxembourg.

The flags, works by invited Luxembourgish artists and designers, are mixed with existing artists’ flags, which are part of the archive of the What the Flag?! project. The artists and designers are invited to respond from their own work and vision of the medium “flag” within the context of the location in which they are shown.

The flags are placed between the central locations of the European Design Festival 2023 in the city of Luxembourg forming a route that the public can follow with the help of a map.

Exhibition opening 15.05.2023 - 17:30