Untitled 2017 (Fear Eats the Soul) (White Flag), Rirkrit Tiravanija

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Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled 2017 (Fear Eats the Soul) (White Flag)
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled 2017 (Fear Eats the Soul) (White Flag)
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Untitled 2017 (Fear Eats the Soul) (White Flag)
2017
Rirkrit Tiravanija, artist
born 1961
Untitled 2017 (Fear Eats the Soul) (White Flag), 2017
Portfolio/Series title: Pledges of Allegiance
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: cloth; brass
Accession number: EL2018.030
Not on display
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The message of Argentinian-born Rirkrit Tiravanija’s flag is a reference to German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (the English translation of ‘Angst essen Seele auf').

The film first appeared in Tiravanija’s Untitled 1994 (Fear Eats the Soul), a bar he constructed at Esther Schipper’s storefront gallery in Cologne that only served beer and cola. Fassbinder’s two lead characters, a German cleaner and a Moroccan mechanic, meet in the film’s opening scene over the aforementioned drinks, commencing an unlikely relationship that unearths their deepest fears as much as the xenophobia and racism of their surroundings.

Exhibitions

Pledges of Allegiance
2017–2018