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Growing up, Arielle Tesoriero became fascinated with the association between the feminine body and food in culture and art history. She noticed women around her, including herself, constantly consumed by others while simultaneously consuming themselves. Cake became a central image in her work because it represents reward, display, and curated perfection. In the beginning, her cakes functioned as trophies, presenting her childhood as something defeated and ritualized. As her work progressed, however, Tesoriero began to see her identity and cake as indistinguishable, reflecting how expectation, desire, and memory accumulate and transform over time, only to be created and destroyed again and again. Her work explores the uncomfortable, the hyperfeminine, the playful, and the grotesque. Through her surreal compositions, she represents selfhood as something unstable that is continually consumed and remade.
Tesoriero is also a singer and songwriter who is streamed globally, with her most recent self-released EP heartsick out now. Ripping pages straight from her diary, her compulsive honesty encapsulates growing older while struggling with identity and nostalgia. Tesoriero delivers breathy bedroom pop ballads like “2313” / all my friends left me empty / stuck inside a body thats aging / while “beautiful princess disorder” is the chronically online sad girls anthem / I can’t get what I want and it’s always my fault / I cry when I’m alone / I’d rather die than grow /. heartsick transcends the gap between Tesoriero’s art and music, leaving you wondering if you should over-analyze your youth in your own diary.