Post-Europe
2025
Plinth, broken transparent glass
2 x 193 x 293 cm (sculpture) / 10 x 200 x 300 cm (plinth)
All images © Fábio Colaço
2025
Plinth, broken transparent glass
2 x 193 x 293 cm (sculpture) / 10 x 200 x 300 cm (plinth)
All images © Fábio Colaço
“Post-Europe” (2025) presents the European Union
flag reconstructed from shards of glass, transforming a familiar emblem of
unity into an image of rupture and fragility. The work confronts the viewer
with the unsettling reality of a project that, once envisioned as a symbol of
integration and solidarity, now bears the visible scars of fragmentation. The
broken glass destabilizes the flag’s geometry, its sharp edges evoking both
danger and irreversibility. What was designed as a shared identity appears
fragile, precarious, and violently disrupted. The piece resonates with
contemporary anxieties about nationalism, economic disparity, and the erosion of
collective ideals, reflecting the collapse of cohesion in a political entity
once imagined as unbreakable. Through its stark materiality, Post-Europe
transforms a symbol of belonging into a monument to disillusionment. It asks
not only what has been destroyed, but also whether anything can be reassembled
from the fragments left behind.