DisOrient
Part of Markus Meissen’s The Violence of Participation, 2007| Shown at: Lyon Biennale, Lyon (2007); Markus Meissen, The Violence of Participation (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2007)
Print on bond paper
30 x 21 cm
A fragment of faux classical Greek statuary, an extended arm, stretches across the plane of a poster, traversing a laterally inverted map of Europe, pointing away, below a band of flat colors, an array of would-be flags. The orient disturbs the cardinal directions.