12 flagpoles are erected in a circle. The poles and the hoisted flags are dyed in different nuances of skin colors. The flags are monochromes, and devoid of the markings or divisions known from most national flags. The flagpoles differ in height, with the lightest skin color as the tallest and the darkest skin color as the shortest.
The title is taken directly from the names paint dealers and the cosmetics industry give skin tones, like Toffee, Native, Exotic, Peach and Normal. These defining labels are in the installation combined with the varying heights of the poles.
Those hierarchies embedded in the work reflect oppressive structures in society. But the color palette on the other side represents a broad range of skin tones, embracing and inviting all people into a unifying community. In this perspective, the flags also become a protest against nationalism and a call for humanism and diversity in spite of the structures that permeates our societies.

Native, Exotic, Normal / Circle of Flags is part of the collection of Horsens Art Museum.

Native, Exotic, Normal / Circle of Flags is part of the solo show, Native, Exotic, Normal, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (2016). 
Native, Exotic, Normal includes two projects in public space - at Roskilde Festival and the People's Political Meeting. The two projects are tied together using the same color palette as the exhibition, and flags as symbols of territorial demarcations.
The project is generously supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.

Included in the group show FLAG – objekt, ikon, symbol, Randers Art Museum, Randers, Denmark (2019).
Artists: Mikkel Carl, Claus Carstensen, Ismar Cirkinagic, Sven Dalsgaard, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Jeannette Ehlers, Thierrry Geoffroy/Colonel, Poul Gernes, John Gerrard, Gudrun Hasle, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Peter Holst Henckel, Superflex, Lars Von Trier, Ai WeiWei.

Photo: Lone Eriksen + Anders Sune Berg.