Upper class supervised

© 2010 Flavia Lupu

Accustomed to spend its nature in a permanent state of disguised self-sufficiency, in an almost obligatory superiority – a gained status -, secluded in hard-to-reach spaces, symbolically located considerably above the common world, the upper class is, in theory, impossible to capture as a vulnerable or inconsistent object of observation. We propose a plunging angle of view, from where the members of this small and cosmopolitan social category become trivial subjects of analysis. We stand in a place, somewhere beyond the top, where the supervisor becomes is under surveillance.

We have here a game of contradictions in which the artist positions herself, in the same time, above and below the upper class. The artist is different, but, to some extent, is part of this kind of world, being in a fundamental opposition to its defining values, but in the same time longing for its acknowledgment.