South-Eastern Enemy
2002
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
2002
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
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South-Eastern Enemy is a 2002 by Olga Florenskaya, depicting Flag, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print, *South-Eastern Enemy* by Olga Florenskaya, is part of a 2002 series called *Russian Trophy*. It uses a flag as a visual shorthand for an unnamed rival. The project pokes fun at old Russian and Soviet fears of outsiders. Instead of real countries, it invents silly names like this one to mock fortress thinking. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The print depicts a rectangular, landscape-format flag resembling a Turkish or Middle-Eastern design, with altered colors and details, accompanied by text in both Russian and English. The work is inscribed with lettering above and below the flag, numbered, initialed, and dated in pencil at the bottom right, and bears a blind stamp from the Hand Print Workshop.
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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