"Pátria (Motherland)" is a series of imagined flags made from frayed black silk and sequins, along with their corresponding flagpoles. They raise questions about the artificiality of the concept of a Nation State and transform materials traditionally linked to gendered, “feminine” and queer clothing (see-through silk and sequins) into a phallic object that is read through masculinity in its conception: the flag, a symbol of the abstract, artificial, unified power of a Nation State.
