Tara Fallaux is a visual artist based in Amsterdam. She is an award winning photographer and filmmaker, and she explores the poetic and philosophical language inherent in multimedia layered stories.Tara has always alternated her photography and film.

“My work is mainly about the human psyche and how we deal with the so-called 'manufacturability' of life. Many of my long-term projects focus on society; loneliness, the presence and absence of love, loss and (non) verbal (mis)communication. I like strong visual stories that are emotionally motivated. My projects generally take the form of an image-based, photographic and cinematic investigation into those elusive aspects of consciousness, creating poetic stories that reflect different ways of perceiving reality. My stories are always at the intersection of documentary, imagination and visual art.”

Tara has directed several documentaries including the film Over The Rainbow (a chronicle of the coming out of her 80-year old gay aunt) which had it’s world premiere at the prestigious Hot Docs Festival (Toronto) and has been screened at numerous festivals worldwide and received several awards. Her latest documentary film Love Letters premiered at IDFA (Amsterdam) and was selected for Best International Short Documentary. It also featured in The Atlantic Selects (chosen by the Atlantic Monthly, USA).  

Recent work:

Almost There premiered at UNBOUND during UNSEEN 2023. Represented by Gallery Caroline O’Breen. It was chosen as Art Work of the week by the National Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant.

In 2022, Tara Fallaux created I Write This Letter in Bed. An intimate film, it deals with digital representation and self, focussing on Rocy, a young woman in China who is puzzled by the evolving concepts of love and marriage. The film premiered at Galerie Caroline O’Breen together with two photographic light boxes and other photography from this project (originated during Fallaux’ 2018 residency at the Chinese European Art Center in Xiamen). Perfect Pearl, the book, was published in April 2022 and shortlisted for Prix du Livre Rencontres D’Arles and Best Dutch Book Design 2022. It was a.o on display at Espace Van Gogh in Arles and Het Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The project Perfect Pearl was on show at the Technische Sammlungen Museum in Dresden as part of the Hellerau Photography award, Arles Nuit de L’Annee, Guernsey photo festival, Rolling Snowball Iceland and Gallery Caroline O’Breen. 

Tara’s work has been shown internationally at festivals and museums, a.o. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Hot Docs Toronto, Rencontres d’Arles, IDFA, Fotofestival Naarden, Guernsey Photography Festival, Technische Sammlungen Museum Dresden, NYC Independent Film Festival, Lincoln Center for the Arts, The Melkweg Gallery, The Dutch National Portrait Studio and BIG ART Amsterdam.

Tara is Co-director & curator of the photography festival and fair www.buymydarlings.nl that takes place bi-annually in Amsterdam.

Next to her autonomous art work Tara works as a freelance photographer and filmmaker. She is also an audiovisual and photography coach.

Photo by Diderik Evers

Photo by Diderik Evers

Tara’s work on Gallery Viewer.

EXHIBITIONS AND VIEWINGS:

2024 I’m Sorry- Film installation with mirrors, Rolling Snowball, Xiamen China.

2024 Women in Art. De Hallen, Mercatorplein, Westerpark Amsterdam. March 1-31

2023 Perfect Pearl book at Best Dutch Book Design in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

2023 Almost There- Film / photo sculpture installation at UNBOUND curated exhibition Amsterdam

2023 I Write This Letter in Bed- Film-installation at Der Greif at Pinakothek der Moderne & ZIRKA, Munchen

2023 BUY MY DARLINGS LOVE edition, Amsterdam

2023 I Write This Letter in Bed- Film-installation at gallery Caroline O’Breen Amsterdam

2023 Perfect Pearl at Tropic Bound Artists’ Book Fair, Miami Florida USA

2022 Mobile Home Film-installation at BIG ART Amsterdam

2022 Perfect Pearl the book at Prix du Livre, Espace van Gogh, Rencontres D’Arles

2022 Perfect Pearl the book at Athens Photo Festival & Encontros de Imagem Portugal

2022 Perfect Pearl at Nuit de L’Année, Rencontres D’Arles

2022 Mobile Home at Rolling Snowball #15, Iceland.

2022 Perfect Pearl at Portraits Hellerau in the Technical Collections Museum in Dresden.

2021 The Love Line, solo show at The Dutch Portrait Studio

2021 Perfect Pearl, solo show Guernsey Photography Festival. (Postponed to Dec 2022)

2020 Living on the Edge, Sharjah Art Foundation, Arabic Emirates.

2020 Love Letters film, AFSAD Festival in Ankara

2020 Love Sick short dance film at Dance film festival SPACE in Pittsburgh

2020 Over The Rainbow and women portraits, Solo show at Vizualizator Festival Belgrade

2019 Wild Poppy, Prix de la Photographie, Paris

2019 Wild Poppy Love me Tender at Docfield Barcelona, SOLAR Festival Brazil and Lagos Festival Nigeria.

2019 Wild Poppy at Photo Festival Naarden.

2019 LOVE SICK short dance film at Leiden experimental Film festival.

2018 Today, Tomorrow, Forever video installation, solo exhibition at C.E.A.C, Xiamen, China

2018 LOVE LETTERS film, The Helsinki International Film Festival- Love and Anarchy

2017 LOVE LETTERS, photography and video installation, Photo Festival Naarden.

2017 LOVE LETTERS film, IDFA, Sleepwalkers Film Festival Estonia, Eindhovens Filmfestival, The Atlantic Selects

2017 LOUIS THE FERRIS WHEEL KID at Movies that Matter Go Short, Nijmegen

2016 OVER THE RAINBOW at Berlin Short Film Festival, PINK APPLE filmfestival, Zürich,

Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney.

2015 OVER THE RAINBOW at NYC Independent Film Festival, MIX Copenhagen, Denmark.

Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht,

Festival Asterisco, Buenos Aires, Hot Docs Toronto International Premiere,

Roze Filmdagen World Premiere. Jury Award Best Documentary and Audience Award.

2015 Gedanst. Permanent exhibition at Korzo theater The Hague.

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Tara’s work is supported by; Amsterdams Fonds Voor de Kunst, Amarte fonds, Stichting Stokroos, Tijlfonds/ Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, PPO Werktuig, Vevam Directors Fund, Dutch Film Fund and Mondriaan Fund.

Education: film and visual arts at the Netherlands Film Academy and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, as well as at the Carnegie Mellon University in the US. She was selected for residencies in China (C.E.A.C) and Japan (Atlantic Centre for the Arts with Nan Goldin).