Chloë Bass: 24 Flags – A Kunstmeile Hamburg Project: Kunstmeile Hamburg

Chloë Bass's public art installation for 24 Flags, a project organized by Kunstmeile Hamburg, Germany. 

The institution's press release follows:

Chloë Bass’s artistic practice explores the relationship between intimacy and public life. Working across performance, installation, text, photography and sound, she examines the tensions that arise between the two. Her background in theatre and performance informs an approach that brings together language, the body, materials and architecture. Bass understands everyday situations as politically informative, translating them into works that are often site-specific. She is particularly interested in how personal experiences are shaped by and embedded within social structures and urban environments. Moving between her own perspective, intimate partnerships, family relationships and broader social and political contexts, she traces connections across different scales of human experience. Public spaces often provide a concrete setting for these investigations. Her works create room for reflection and orientation, while affirming the public realm as a shared space shaped by those who inhabit it.

Chloë Bass: “This series of three flags asks us to imagine something beautiful but impossible. What single image from daily life could cancel the damages of war? It's an optimistic idea, one that might inspire us to make more beauty in our own lives. However, it also asks us to remember that the production of beauty on a local basis is not sufficient to cancel larger-scale harms worldwide. An image, no matter how beautiful, is just the representation of a moment. It is not an act, or series of actions, that produces repair, even if we continue to hope that beauty will change the world.”