Four years ago Charles Cooper and Pia Larsen proposed an exhibition of playful flags to coincide with the USA presidential election. When they proposed a similar show a few months ago their mood was anything but playful, it had everything to do with the Trump presidency.
In the President’s self declared era of fake news the nuanced
art of spin was replaced with narcissistic lies. A cant, dictated by Rupert Murdoch and emblazoned with Trump’s idiotic catch cry, “Make America Great Again”, begs the question, when did America last stop being great?
Cooper with his coffin and Larsen with her banners identify the two glaring issues facing the USA at this election. An inability to remedy or manage the Covid 19 pandemic and the racial and economic inequalities identified by the Black Lives Matter protests.
Together they ask a deeper question, are we watching the paragon of capitalism devolve into a tacit civil war?
Tony Twigg
