I’m also showing this work at @artbasel Miami Beach with @stpi_gallery at Booth G26 - In 2020, the #UnitedKingdom government released the Brexit #50pence #coin to commemorate UK leaving the European Union on 31 January 2020. It has become a #historical marker for a sea change brought on by #populist #democracy, #ultranationalism and a turn away from #multilateral #internationalism. To some, #Brexit is the real end of the #BritishEmpire. The Brexit coin is ironically inscribed with a quote from American founding father #ThomasJefferson who worked successfully to break #America out of the British Empire: “Peace, prosperity and friendship with all nations”. Brexit, the result of a national referendum in 2016, was not wholly motivated by a popular hatred for the #foreigner. Rather, the arguments around the UK’s separation from #Europe are ironically similar to those for #American #independence. They were based on a #spectre of #colonialism, of resisting the overreach of regional and international governance on the #sovereignty of the nation and of a populist hope that Britain might reclaim itself as an impressive global power on its own terms. Pointing to the conceits of international worlds riding the historical waves of colonialism and neo-colonialism and from which the invader and the foreigner emerge to be pointed out, resisted or assimilated, Peace Prosperity And Friendship With All Nations turns the complexity of the world we live in into a slogan, a font, an object that literally can be seen and spoken to. Text by Kathleen Ditzig #HemanChong #peaceprosperityandfriendshipwithallnations #artbaselmiamibeach2022 #artbaselmiamibeach #artbasel #miamibeach #usa #brexit #slogan #slogans (at Art Basel Miami Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/CljZF9Tvalx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
