While the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus
pronounced on his deathbed Acta est fabula (The function is over) the function
that Rebolledo announces as concluded, This flag rounds about the subjectivity of the idea
of progress: the expectation of a emancipatory promise formulated in the
bosom of modernity, whose insignia represents the decline of that same world modern,
ours. Of that promise, although still erected, only the catastrophe and its
wound remain.
Flag pole and corpse bag