Bordeaux Hyatt: Faux Pas

These portraits of ‘trophy children’ consider how social status and adult roles are evident through the children’s posture, facial expression, direct gaze, and attire. Here references to wealth, class and a status-anxiety aficionado are coupled with formalist sensibilities and a propensity for hyper-aestheticism; a saccharine sweet palette, a deft lightness of touch and an astute attention to surface. The expressions of disdain or an air of indifference on the children’s faces belie their age and distinguish them as anything but middle-class.

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