The Synthetic SkinFlags in FACT's lobby recreate different shades of skin colour, as pastiches of national flags that the artist stigmatizes as obsolete symbols of territorial order and colonial history. In Oliver Goulet's work the idea of human mutation and moulting stimulated by technological innovation relates to continuous political changes that affect the definition of borders and national identities. Flags as symbols of artificial constructs contrast with the natural fusion and coexistence of different coloured skins.

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The Synthetic SkinFlags in FACT's lobby recreate different shades of skin colour, as pastiches of national flags that the artist stigmatizes as obsolete symbols of territorial order and colonial history. In Oliver Goulet's work the idea of human mutation and moulting stimulated by technological innovation relates to continuous political changes that affect the definition of borders and national identities. Flags as symbols of artificial constructs contrast with the natural fusion and coexistence of different coloured skins.