Your Fan Club Can’t Save You

In the work Your Fan Club Can’t Save You (2017) – also called mop-flags – the hand, conceived as an organ for primary interface between bodies, is downgraded to an everyday maintenance tool. These sculptures are displayed as faded flags, and are covered with dry mops that serve nothing and become ornaments, disrupting the flag’s symbolic value. The title of the work suggests pessimistic connotations, evoking the fact that fans can create fame and visibility for someone, but cannot be physically present in moments where more intimate support is needed. However, the mop-flag also has a latent positive power that can be awoken: the power of erasing the traces and fragments of information that make human actions trackable and decoding the behaviours that feed our digital avatars.