1 3 J U AN –PE DRO FAB RA G UEMBER ENA SNAFU The flag is composed by a series of images taken from pornographic magazines. The images have been manipulated and camouflaged with a black felt pen leaving only the eyes of the models uncovered, for a moment the gaze is turned, they are looking at us. The word SNAFU stands for the sarcastic expression: Situation Normal All Fucked Up, a well-known US military acronym slang. Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena (b.1971, Montevideo, Uruguay) lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Stockholm, Sweden. He is educated from The Royal College of Art, Stockholm. Exhibitions include Delays and Revolutions, 50th Venice Biennial, Italy; My Private Heroes, MARTa Herford Museum, Germany; The Moderna Exhibition, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Favored Nations, 5th Momentum Biennial, Moss, Norway; Biennial of The Americas (2010), Denver, Colorado, US and Outdoor Sculpture Triennial Prinzessinnengarten, Berlin, Germany.
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