About colors and flags
Colours can trigger vastly different reactions over time.
At certain points in my life, I preferred so-called “negative” colors like black and white. Learning to feel comfortable with all colors was both challenging and rewarding for me. I explored the emotions I felt when faced with colors and their combinations, and I discovered that color is never neutral. It is a silent language, rich with memories and emotions.
Color is a signifier dense with complexity, inextricably woven into culture and personal experience. When a community projects a shared meaning onto a specific hue, color transcends its perceptual nature to become a symbol.
Through the choice of a tint, we construct boundaries of identity and a sense of belonging.
In this synthesis of form and substance, the chromatic element becomes charged with powerful emotional and political value.
The most emblematic example is the flag: within it, color ceases to be a mere aesthetic quality and becomes a vessel for collective memory and a visual synthesis of an entire cultural heritage.
Alongside these grand, shared narratives, there is room for creative autonomy.
I like to imagine that everyone can design their own flag and give it their own symbolic meaning, which may not be shared by others. Through this process, colour and form are liberated from social conventions, becoming a profound reflection of individual identity.
The Bandiere series represents the idea of condensing into a fabric a strong link with the natural and emotional spaces to which one feels one belongs or needs most.
I do not define the meaning of these Bandiere (Flags) a priori, I leave it to the observer to decide what to attribute it to.
