A Monument
VR Exhibition

Franko B’s work is about control, regardless of form and genre; control over one’s body and over one’s own life, against labels and rules that corrupt or commodify freedom. In a special series of work deploying flags and monuments, Franko B transfigures this concept into a narrative, reflecting on political constellations, institutions and power holders that penetrate human lives. Control of an institution over an individual is almost surreal, yet deeply embedded in reality, so much that we almost don’t have the capacity to acknowledge it consciously. Most of the artificial political creations and corporations are as distant to us as mythical beings, as dogmas or things given by nature; things we both celebrate and mourn in stone. A society’s collective belief in corporate promises render their presence untouchable, displayed only through symbols as proxies that compel us to believe, in real life, in what we would call God or Devil in religion. As individuals, as souls, we can only lose – only in times of crisis do these abstractions become corporeal and more often than not does their flesh prove as rotten, contagious, rather than holy.