From the series Perfect Pearl
In her project Perfect Pearl, Tara Fallaux places her subjects in the context of their natural habitat, Chinese urban life. The artist investigates how young Chinese women reconcile the intimate and contemporary dimensions of love with the engrained traditions.
Tara Fallaux created a powerfully intimate film ‘I Write This Letter In Bed’ about Rocy, a lonely young woman in China, and how she reckons with her doubts and insecurities around the concepts of love and marriage.
Fallaux mainly works on long-term investigative and narrative projects involving photography, film and sound. Her multimedia presentation at the gallery consists of a film installation, two lightboxes and photographic prints. The artist uses lightboxes to juxtapose the ‘picture perfect’ dream quality of a white-dress wedding to the intimacy of this most private moment of a young woman. Just like the wedding in a white dress in China — a contemporary symbol of the ultimate commodified romantic goal. Perfect Pearl, the book of the project, was published in April 2022. The film ‘I Write This Letter In Bed’ was never screened before and will have its premiere at the gallery.
BIO Tara Fallaux
Tara Fallaux is known as a director of award-winning documentary films Over The Rainbow and Love Letters. In 2022, Perfect Pearl was shortlisted for Prix du Livre in Rencontres D’Arles and on display at Espace Van Gogh as well as the Technische Sammlungen Museum in Dresden as part of the Hellerau Photography award. The work of Fallaux has been shown internationally at festivals and museums, a.o. Hot Docs Toronto, Rencontres D’Arles, IDFA, Fotofestival Naarden, Guernsey Photography Festival, Technische Sammlungen Museum Dresden, NYC Independent Film Festival, Lincoln Center and the Melkweg Gallery.