As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, I desire no country. My country, as a woman, is the whole world. The truth is that I am not one of those people who find satisfaction in possessing a single being, nor in possessing infinity. The bedroom bores me, but so does the sky.
Virginia Woolf – The Waves

There are three flagpoles, standing side by side. The national flag is hoisted on the first, the EU flag on the second, and the third is empty.

Vesna Stefanovska approaches, walking toward the third. She stops in front of it, looks at it, then gazes upward. She removes her dress and hangs it—on a pre-prepared support or hanger—and raises it like a soldier or a member of the Republican Guard raises a flag. She ties the knot at the bottom to secure the dress at the top. She lifts her head, looks at it, and walks away.

This project is a conceptual self-portrait, in which the artist seeks to exist in a world where she has often felt exhausted, constantly redefining herself, adapting, transforming to conform to different environments, abilities, limitations, and expectations. She has become a stranger everywhere—and to herself—without even realizing it.