Private Color, 2019
Transparent plastic paper
144 x 96 cm
Transparent plastic paper
144 x 96 cm
What colour did you possess—if only momentarily—through this flag?
The process of perception is rarely neutral. Our encounter with any object or image is inevitably shaped by the cultural context, social frameworks, and hypothetical principles that govern our modes of understanding. The work you are reading about is itself being mediated by this text—a framing I have constructed to guide, or perhaps disrupt, your encounter with it. Equally, the viewer’s interpretation participates in shaping the work’s meaning. This dynamic exists within a specific relational and institutional framework, subject to the exhibition’s internal logic and spatial politics.
Cognitive experience—particularly in the field of art—is never immune from prior knowledge or the structures of cultural transmission that inform it. This includes how we understand the act of interpretation itself. Recognition and misrecognition alike are conditioned by what precedes them.
Through this flag, I invite each viewer to encounter their own “Private Colour”: a subjective inflection shaped by context, memory, and belief. That multiplicity is both our potential and our constraint.