Internal Enemy No. 1
2002
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
2002
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Internal Enemy No. 1 is a 2002 by Olga Florenskaya, depicting Flag, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print by Olga Florenskaya belongs to her 2002 project “Russian Trophy.” It’s part of a set that imagines a strange military museum filled with flags, sculptures, and odd machines. The whole thing pokes fun at old Russian and Soviet fears of outside forces. Her work uses flags to stand in for unnamed rivals—like a flag for “North-Western Enemy” or “Eastern Enemy.” It’s satire, not a real war museum display. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The print depicts a rectangular flag resembling the Russian national flag, with the middle white stripe replaced by black, and includes text in both Russian and English. It bears numbering, initials, and a date in pencil at the bottom right, along with a blind stamp from the Hand Print Workshop. Part of the 2002 *Russian Trophy* project by Olga Florenskaya, the work critiques militarism and xenophobia through satirical imagery. The entire set is presented in a sealed wooden crate resembling military equipment.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Olga Florenskaya’s prints from 2002 turn Cold War fears into bold, graphic shapes.
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