What is the flag for each of us?

Bandera is a project born in Cúcuta, Norte de Santander. A border territory in Colombia that borders the state of Táchira in Venezuela. These countries share a history as extensive as their border. The inhabitants of these border territories create bonds between similarities; economic, social, and cultural.

Currently, the Venezuelan migrants crossing the border have intensified this encounter. It is in this social friction where individual meanings and collective symbols confront each other. Furthermore, this material is what nourishes the project.  

The flags of Colombia and Venezuela spring from the same ideal. Both nations have transformed them over time but have retained the symbolic meaning that gave rise to the development of the flag. 

Constantly in this border territory of humanitarian emergency, tensions are created between both flags, the flags mimic each other, and the limits of that symbol are blurred.

– Archive 

Archive of photographs and videos found during the fieldwork carried out in the border context. These show how individuals and the collective appropriate themselves and represent the symbols (flags).