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Arielle Tesoriero's multidisciplinary work investigates the cycle of growing up, consuming, and being consumed. She's interested in navigating the tension between the body and identity, shaped by negotiating pressures of expectation and desire. Cake is a perfect metaphor for the self as a curated object, existing between control and collapse. Tesoriero's imagination comes to life through her whimsical yet unsettling visual language, where glitter frosting coats dismembered limbs of women and animals, and figures melt into distorted shapeshifters caught in perpetual transformation. By drawing inspiration from her childhood, her work becomes a reflection of memory and the construction of identity. Through her grotesquely dreamlike compositions, she explore's selfhood as something constantly being shaped, undone, 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.