BUY MY DARLINGS - LET LOVE RULE

Buy My Darlings keert in september terug naar NDSM FUSE in Amsterdam Noord met een bijzondere vijfde editie, getiteld Let Love Rule waarin hedendaagse fotografie, ontmoeting en maatschappelijke betrokkenheid samenkomen. Het evenement bestaat uit een vier weken durende tentoonstelling van 11 september t/m 5 oktober met zestien fotografen en een uitgebreider driedaags programma van 19 – 21 september.

Alle namen van de kunstenaars van de tentoonstelling op een rij:

Morad Bouchakour, Ernst Coppejans, Marco van Duyvendijk, Tara Fallaux, Martijn van de Griendt, Chantal Heijnen, Marike Hoex, Louise Honée, ‘Klaas’, Floor Meijers, Femke Reijerman, Maarten van Schaik, Mo Verlaan, Dylan van Vliet, Prins de Vos en Sabine van Wechem.

Alle deelnemers van het event van 19 – 21 september

Bovenstaande kunstenaars aangevuld met Bebe Blanco Agterberg, Hans Bol, Boudewijn Bollmann, Maria Dabrowski, Jennifer Drabbe, Jasper Groen, Ton Grote, Ruben Lundgren, Marwan Magroun, Anneloes Pabbruwee, Claude Vanheye, Jasper Zwartjes en uitgevers als The Eriskay Connection, Fw:Books, Lecturis en Self Publishers United.

NOVA

I received the wonderful news that my film plan NOVA has been approved for development! I’m really excited to work on this in 2025, under the guidance of the amazing script coach Jolein Laarman. ✨✨✨
Nederlands Filmfonds

UNSEEN BOOKMARKET

BUY MY DARLINGS will be present at the UNSEEN bookmarket from Sept 19-22. We will present books and special edition prints from Martijn van de Griendt, Tara Fallaux, Prins de Vos, Sabine van Wechem, Maurice Hermans and Eliza Sophie Sekreve.

ARS LONGA contemporary art museum

My ‘veils’ will flutter in Iceland where the work will be on display at the exhibition: "Rolling Snowball 16" in ARS LONGA samtímalistasafn / contemporary art museum in Djúpivogur. The opening is this July 6, 2024.

Curators: Hildur Rut Halblaub, Ineke Guõmundsson, May Lee. 

https://arslonga.is/

Women in Art Diptych

De Hallen Amsterdam until March 10, Mercatorplein until March 19, Westerpark until April 7.

For Women in Art I was inspired by a special love couple who were pioneers in modern dance and special effects during the first feminist wave. Loïe Fuller (1862-1928) and Gab Sorère (1870-1961). Loïe was the first American dancer to conquer Europe during the Belle Époque. She took off the corset and danced barefoot to classical music. Fuller used movement, fabric, light and illusion to bring abstract shapes to life with her body and to imitate natural phenomena. Loïe was a master of illusion, disguise and revelation, but she never cast a veil over who she was or who she loved. In Paris she started a relationship with Gab Sorère, who was 8 years younger. Gab worked as a stage designer, special effects inventor and filmmaker. Through light and illusion, Sorère was able to make dancers disappear on stage. An inspiring couple who lived their lives against the norms and expectations of their time.

Now on display at Het Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

BEST DUTCH BOOK DESIGN

‘This intimate photo book in a signed, numbered edition of 250 copies, features truly fantastic spreads. Thanks to a folding technique that is as simple as it is effective, this becomes an interplay between different layers of experience: online and offline, inner and outer world, dream and reality. Perfect Pearl has a sewn binding in a cover with grooves, which is then quarter-folded to give a format of 170×280 mm. Intimate details remain hidden behind the fold, and can be seen only once the pages have been completely unfolded. This fold results in beautiful combinations of images – each page is as surprising as the last and we feel that we just have to keep on unfolding. An intimate, physical experience which one jury member remarked could be a nod to erotic magazines, which would be carried rolled up or folded to hide their content…’

Until January 07 2024

UNBOUND 2023

Happy to announce that my brand new film/ photo installation will have a premiere at the curated exhibition of UNSEEN this year. 21-24 September 2023

Unbound is an independent foundation of Unseen, dedicated to exploring the expanding outer limits of the photographic universe on a monumental scale, and Unseen’s most ambitious project to date. In 2023 Emma Bowkett (Curator and Director of Photography of Financial Times Magazine) will be curating the exhibition where photography crosses over into digital art, installations, performance art, sculpture, virtual reality and video art.

Article in ArtsLife Italia

Tara Fallaux. La natura dell’amore

Tara Fallaux è un’artista multimediale di Amsterdam che si muove tra fotografia, film e installazioni, sempre all’avanguardia nel campo del documentario e dell’arte visiva. L’immaginario di Tara è visivamente forte, come le storie che racconta, emotivamente coinvolgenti, che sollevano dubbi e quesiti nello spettatore più che dare risposte. La maggior parte dei progetti a lungo termine dell’artista è un’indagine sulla società, sull’amore, sulla perdita, sulle illusioni, sulla vulnerabilità e sulle complessità psicologiche e culturali che si intrecciano.

Read full article here

Tara Fallaux, from the series Perfect Pearl, courtesy Gallery Caroline O’Breen

BUY MY DARLINGS the LOVE edition

Martijn van de Griendt and I curated and organized another BUY MY DARLINGS photo event.

Following the successful concept of the two day photo event in which around forty renowned and talented upcoming photographers show and sell their most beautiful work, or their darlings, there also is a special exhibition with the theme LOVE. The proceeds of the exhibition will go to AIDSFONDS.
This year there are also portfolio reviews, artist talks and special attention for photo books.

https://buymydarlings.nl/

Tara Fallaux – I Write This Letter in Bed & Sarah Mei Herman – Solace. A duo presentation on Chinese youth and intimacy

February 18 – April 8, 2023

Festive Opening on Sat 18 Feb, 17–19 hrs


After attending the same artist residency, C.E.A.C in Xiamen, China, photographer Sarah Mei Herman and visual artist Tara Fallaux explore the concept of intimacy in a culture different from their own. The resulting projects are presented in an artistic dialogue at Galerie Caroline O’Breen.

Rather than highlighting contradictions between Western and Eastern culture, both artists seek out the universal. They find common ground in the meaning of love and intimacy among young people. They bear witness to the recognizable human experience of uncertainty and change as these young people make choices on the road to adulthood.

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. In her project Perfect Pearl, 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, Lova’s Moment, 2018-2022, from the project Perfect Pearl | Lightbox in aluminum black frame with led lights | 70 x 50 cm | Edition of 3 + 1 AP

Galerie Caroline O'Breen 

Hazenstraat 54   
1016 SR Amsterdam 
The Netherlands 

Opening hours: 
Wed-Fri 12-6 pm, Sat 1-6 pm
and private appointments

Amsterdams Fonds Voor de Kunst

Bedankt Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK)!

In the coming year I will be researching my new project LEVARE.

This project is my visual and philosophical exploration of ways people try and yearn to be weightless, free-floating, flying, or in other words gravity-free. The urge to escape the heaviness of life and the desire to be free and weightless and free from heavy thoughts (depression) is the underlying theme. But escape is almost impossible. Hence the age-old hope that magic can bring salvation. The enchanting, the supernatural, the strange, the impossible.