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Stemming out of my own search for "authentic self", I explore human subjectivity in relation to self perception and the perception of the other. My work is a reaction to our Facebook-centric, Late Capitalist age, in which we are encouraged to participate in the commodification of our selves, where identities are carefully bought and assembled, where constant surveillance is normalized and privacy is no longer the “default” setting. I investigate a desire to be both seen and not seen, to share and not share, to connect and not connect. Through my work, I seek to understand and express what it is to simply be human amongst the pressures that pervade postmodern Western culture. ---------------- Arielle Falk, born 1983 in Washington DC, is a Brooklyn-based artist working in video, performance, and sculpture. She received her BA in Arts in Context (concentration in Performance Studies) from Eugene Lang College (NYC) in 2007. Since, Falk has exhibited both nationally and internationally at venues such as P.P.O.W Gallery, Envoy Enterprises, Interstate Projects, The Big Screen Plaza, Movement Research at Judson Church, Art in Odd Places Pedestrian Festival, BolteLang (Zurich), Antimatter Underground Film Festival (Canada), EXiS Experimental Film & Video Festival (Korea) and Festival Miden (Greece). Her first solo exhibition, Lego My Ego, held in 2010 at LZ Project Space in NYC's Lower East Side, was named "Best in Show" by The Village Voice. A 2010-11 Franklin Furnace Fundwinner, Falk presented DE-INHIBITIONATORS, a large-scale public performance piece, in Union Square (NYC) in April 2011. The piece, a Time Out NY "Critic's Pick," was covered on the day of by WNYC Radio. Most recently, in October 2011, Falk exhibited a new multi-channel video installation, ON LOOP, at Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton.
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