The specific meanings of “post” theories, focused on the deconstruction of the past, often comes in contradiction with a process that is activated in a situations that happens whit in a context. Such a „post” situation cannot be identified without identifying the previous act that became the subject of deconstruction. The crisis of “post” theories (where “post” in not the same as “anti”) intersects with the maternal attitude of the present towards the past, following a phenomenon of double authority: that of appropriating the past, but rejecting it at the same time. The most difficult task imposed by „post” theories is the ability to delimit, which seems to be entangled in the „in-between” stage, because the time frames and political and cultural phenomena do not always clearly define their boundaries or have been completed entirely. Looking in the past means taking enough distance. This process is not always possible and therefore we are left with the ambiguity and coexistence. The transition period from communism to post-communism in Romania, in the broader context of the former Eastern bloc, the period of the 90s represents a decade with multiple meanings and connotations for all generations involved. The particular situation of the young generation is probably the most interesting because it is the first generation detached from its immediate past, probably the most able to embrace the „post” era and yet the most unable to understand its consequences. This generation did not had the experience of the communist past, does not have a traumatic memory and is simply a generation trapped in the transition process that cannot identify it as such. The young generation that was born in the 90s confronts with the past through family stories or book theories.

In a way, these young people experience, without necessarily being aware, an identity crisis. They do not belong to the industrial past, nor to the consumerist present, they are the children of Transition. Flavia Lupu assumes the role of analyzing this status through a self-referential discourse and through dialogue with her generation. These young people quickly adapted to the consumerist times, but at the same time their mentalities were formed in the shadow of the past, through families. They live in apartments and in communist flats, they play their classic gender roles as men and women, they have dreams, prejudices and frustrations. They were the lucky ones to taste the bananas early. However, the environment in which they live is a strong sign of the past that they cannot fully understand and perhaps some of them are not even interested in doing so. In relation to power, this generation defines itself in a as another type of laboratory mice, compared to their parents, as we are all living and breathing beings that can escape from the system only with the power of the mind. The object, the symbolic „red chair”, print and video (original unedited domestic video) should provide at least some of the facets of the transition; an important exercise in understanding the own identity and how the past affects your present. And that’s only if you give a damn!