Spectacles usually serve as a tool for perspective, the correction of visual impairment, they generally act as prosthetic devices of the body in crisis.
Spectacles have an increasingly aesthetic function and follow fashion as well as trends.
Martin Gut’s Nationalist Spectacles thus serves as a political accessory within our society, especially against the backdrop of current global political events and also the nation state crisis. The Nationalist Spectacles demonstrates how one’s vision can get blurred.
When following the developments in America and judging by the comments, remarks and statements of a large number of contemporaries made in on- and offline forums, it would appear as if they were to be walking around with such spectacles on.
Thus, the Nationalist Spectacles becomes symbolic for the walls that we demand to have placed around the borders of nation states, which start off as the physical boundaries of our crisis-ridden bodies.
