Flags of Main Enemy Troops
2002
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
2002
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Flags of Main Enemy Troops is a 2002 by Olga Florenskaya, depicting Flag, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print series pokes fun at old-school war museums. It’s called *Flags of Main Enemy Troops* and was made by Olga Florenskayain 2002. The prints look like flags you’d see in a real collection, but the labels make them absurd—like “North-Western Enemy” for Britain. The setup is silly and sharp. It’s part of a bigger art project that mocked Russia’s long history of seeing enemies everywhere. The flags are thinly veiled jokes, not real threats. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum for more.
The artwork consists of a rectangular wooden box in landscape format, its lid fastened with wing nuts to resemble a military crate. The title is stencilled in black on the lid in Russian. Inside are prints derived from the artists' project *Russian Trophy*, a satirical collection of objects from an imaginary military museum.
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Olga Florenskaya’s prints from 2002 turn Cold War fears into bold, graphic shapes.
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