(May, 2013, White Night of Art Galleries)
– Atelier 030202

Case: Flavia Lupu, artist, in a self-portrait, 1: 1 scale; when you vandalize the photo, blood flows (fake).

The principle: we have a woman who offers herself, hypothetically, to the public to be abused. Participants can intervene with a gilded hammer, nails and other objects that are on a table, also gilded, used in the medical system.

The substrate: an ambiguous relationship. Those who take part in the action „are plaing”, being, most likely, amused. The experiment is a fake. Metaphorically, a reference is made to the idea of identity as an image that others, that are stronger, can have, depending on the authority they hold, within the accepted possibilities (hammer, nails, wires, knife, etc. – in this case). At the subconscious level we do not know if the public feels that they use the power that they have over a simple sheet of paper, or if they have the feeling of freedom to dispose of a person in a way that would be impossible in real life.