Meet the World: Portugese Artists’ Outreach

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A team of artists in Lisbon has “produced the flags campaign which has been circulating the Earth in chain letters via e-mail and in the “Revista Grande Reportagem,” a “Hard Journalism magazine,” says 25-year-old artist Icaro Doria:

We started to research relevant global and current facts and came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the UNO.


The campaign has been running in Portugal since January 2005. There are eight flags that portray very current topics like the division of opinions about the war in Iraq in the United States, the violence against women in Africa, the social inequality in Brazil, the drug trafficking in Columbia, Aids and malaria in Angola, etc.


: : : More flags– including U.S. and EU flags — below : : :

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Visit the artists’ site to see more flags.


Note: I had to crop these images so that, when I reduced their size to the 400px maximum width, less clarity would be lost. You can see the flags in their proper dimensions at the link above.