Surrendered spaces

“The white flag means that they are surrendered places, without additives, without mystifications, not even those of silence and peace. In white flag countries you don't find the best bread or the cobbler who makes your shoes. One finds the world as it is now, exhausted and meaningless, with the only difference that this condition shows itself without being masked by anything else. The white flag is not the flag of desolation as opposed to that of fun. It is not that of ugliness as opposed to that of beauty. It is not that of abandonment as opposed to that of "business". The white flag tells us through any place that the thrill of being in the world has vanished and that we work every day to carry Noah's ark within us and we end up with a handful of flies" (Franco Arminio)

Surrendered places is a project open in space and time. It consists in the installation of a series of white flags in suggestive and characteristic places of the communities with which they come to interact. The white flag, in the light of contemporary events, intends to impose itself as a constructive and political act: not synonymous with passivity and surrender but with convinced action against the imposition of a will that comes from above. Faced with a system that is once again hiding behind market flags and ideologies, which takes sides alongside the highest bidder, raising the white flag becomes a free and popular, pacifist and revolutionary act.