Studio Orta
“Antarctic Village - Metisse Flag
By way of calling the Antarctic expedition to an end, the artists staged the first in a series of symbolic football games, ‘Heads or Tails, Tails or Heads’. Meteorologists, palaeontologists and geologists from the Marambio Antarctic Base joined the Orta team to play the first ‘All Nation’ match. The Metisse Flag and the Antarctic football shirts, created by the artists make it difficult to identify our adversary. The front and back of the football players’ shirts are stitched together with different countries’ team colours. The Heads or Tails match is a playful interpretation of human behaviour in that appearances can often be deceiving: someone we think a friend may actually be an enemy, whilst a total stranger may surprise us with an act of friendship. It is not appearances that count, but rather decisive actions in critical moments.”