Theory and action in feminist art practices
Bio: Flavia Lupu is a visual artist, assistant professor at the National University of Arts in
Bucharest. The artist has a PhD Diploma in Arts, with a thesis on the subject of the body
analyzed in the light of the relationship between image and politics. She participated in
exhibitions, workshops, conferences in Romania and Europe (Austria, Belgium, Italy, Hungary)
and had different personal projects discussing the socio-political and cultural premises that
marked mentalities in Romania. The topics of her works refer to socio-cultural appurtenance,
gender stereotypes, the relationship between the public and the private domain, identity,
prejudgments and prejudices.
The Aesthetics of National Communism in Romania
The Romanian cultural word was irremediable marked by the communist regime of Nicolae
Ceaușescu’s that started as a breath of fresh air for the artistic domain, and ended to be oppressive
also because of the imposed aesthetics. From the early 70s the figure of Ceaușescu and of his wife
Elena, started to be more and more present as a subject in the cultural press of the time and in
exhibition. By the 80s, the dogmatic formulas of representation were supposed to be ideologically
accurate and were subjected to scrutiny to a committee formed by artist and official of the
communist party. On festive occasions the head of the Artists Union had a public positions to
encourage the production of works in which the Romanian ruler to appear as an exemplary hero
of the nation. Such analyze of context has the purpose to give us a wider picture of Romanian
cultural background that can help to better understand the premises of the Romanian art scene
after the fall of the communist regime.
2016 Relaxed, summer
„Relaxat, de vară” este un proiect care a apărut firesc, și care a avut drept punct de pornire înregistrările care surprindeau viața de familie și relațiile dintre membrii comunități din blocuri cu indicativul P, de pe strada Pescărușului, undeva între 1990 și 1996.
2015 Red Bull
Red Bull – 2015 © 2015 Flavia Lupu
2015 Pseudo picnic Morii Lake
With Google Maps you can get anywhere very quickly. Virtual. See the whole picture from above, from almost 20 metres away, if the area is of interest.
2015 memory proiect 88 Art yourself
memory proiect 88 Art yourself – 2015 © 2015 Flavia Lupu
2014 Upper class Timișoara
Upper Class Supervized este un prim episod al unui proiect work-în-progress, cel de-al doilea episod sub titlul I’m a Spoiled Daughter of a Politician la Victoria Art Center din Bucureşti.
2014 I’m a Spoiled Daughter of a Politician
I’m a Spoiled Daughter of a Politician is the result of a project that had its first episode – Upper Class Supervised – presented at Calina Gallery in Timisoara.
2014 „Fake it” – Salzburg project
Project made for due to the theme “The Non-humans” of the course held in Salzburg at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts by Doug Ashford in 2014.
2014 Daddy’s Little Princess – In a Box
A woman in a box or femininity as a rule, a „princess”, a doll, whose purpose is to exist and to be used like an object, assimilated to other selected goods that generates reputation to their possessors.
False dramatic reality is built around a central purpose – the woman should be a baby doll type of one: a trophy, a quantifiable value, whose glow depends on the presence of an audience to applaud the one who has it in his own „possession „.