Super Deluxe

Super Deluxe by Cameron Patricia Downey circles and jaunts around codes of luxury, pleasure, service and gameplay by a jostling of material, personal recollection, flavor and motion itself. In a sociopolitical context wherein the concept of wealth has footed itself entirely on a project of expropriation and dispossession, the ‘luxurious’ becomes a station riddled with precarity. What is ‘fabulous’ and what is ‘Ghetto Fabulous’ often is in constant, if not eternal flux. Luxurity then is a performance — a signifier with no sign, a wealth with no home. This body of work comes about by way of vinyl flooring, gold plating, limousines and cornucopias of pork rinds. At the end of the ride and at the nexus of both the ghetto and the fabulous is a road map towards making oneself cared for —if only for a moment— against the odds of material condition.