“FLEUROP is a new guide to deciphering the 'Fleurop list', showing photos of fake plants with their corresponding national flag ribbons.
The 'Fleurop list' is a list of codenames used by the German secret service, the BND, to identify friendly countries that it spied on using plant names (which recently caused a major scandal).
This list shows how everyone in Europe has always spied on everyone else. It also shows clichés and images used at the highest level between states: Why is the code name for Turkey a hemp plant, but the code name for the US a flowering hydrangea?”
Full-colour reproduced photographs of installations consisting of fake plants and flowers combined with ribbons featuring flags, thus engaging with German Cold War espionage practices, recto pages (with photographs) are glossy.
Soft cover, 21 x 16 cm, 64 not numbered pages, (1st ed/500),(Munich Zurich) 2024
ISBN: 978-3-945900-56-7
