Born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1988, now lives and works in Malmö, Sweden, after some years in Brussels and Berlin subsequently his Masters Degree in 2018, Emil Carlsiö works mainly with painting and sculpture based on various flags, mainly from temporary groups and stateless nations. He uses symbols of these flags as props and cut outs after digitally transforming them. The symbols are applied on the canvas in numerous ways with minor technical differences, from graphic almost digital looking to different kinds of underpainting and experimenting with a variation of oils and painting medium. The sculptures are made in a DIY-technique and function as props of selected symbols of the paintings, often painted as monochromes, acting as dead objects where their surroundings and symbols are lost.