Milit. Fleet
2002
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
2002
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Milit. Fleet is a 2002 by Olga Florenskaya, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This set of prints shows made-up military gear. It’s part of ‘Russian Trophy’, a 2002 project by Olga Florenskaya and her husband. The prints mix satire with handmade war machines and silly flags. The fun part? The flags pretend to mock real rivals, but the names hide them. You’ll see titles like ‘North-Western Enemy’ and ‘Military Therapy Troops’. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum to see the full set.
The print depicts a landscape-format image of an early 20th-century battleship shown in side elevation and aerial view against a blue background, with text in Russian and English above and below the design. It is numbered, signed, and dated in pencil at the lower right, and bears a blind stamp for the Hand Print Workshop at the same location. The work is part of Olga Florenskaya’s 2002 series *Milit. Fleet*, derived from the broader *Russian Trophy* project, which satirized militarism and xenophobia through an imaginary military museum of found-object installations and graphics.
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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