Northern Enemy
2002
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
2002
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Northern Enemy is a 2002 by Olga Florenskaya, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print, *Northern Enemy*, is part of a 2002 set by Olga Florenskaya. It comes from a project called *Russian Trophy* that mocked old Russian and Soviet fears of outsiders. The prints copy flags to joke about imagined enemies, like Britain labeled "North-Western Enemy." It’s all fake war stuff made from junk to show how silly those fears were. Check out artist Florenskaya, Olga next.
A rectangular print in landscape format depicts a flag resembling a Finnish or Scandinavian design with altered colors, accompanied by text in Russian and English above and below the emblem. The work is inscribed, numbered, initialed, and dated in pencil at the lower right, with a blind stamp from the Hand Print Workshop in the same area.
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Olga Florenskaya’s prints from 2002 turn Cold War fears into bold, graphic shapes.
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