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Growing up, Arielle Tesoriero became fascinated by the relationship between the body and food within culture and art history. She observed women around her, including herself, constantly being consumed by others while simultaneously consuming themselves. This led her to become obsessed with cake as a symbol within her work. Cake is made to be looked at, desired, and ultimately destroyed, much like the ways memory, fantasy, and identity are constructed and projected. Influenced by the abject and surrealism, Tesoriero creates figures that are melted, sliced, and reconstructed, reflecting the ways perception can physically reshape the body. Through a combination of hand sculpting, life casting, and layered materials such as resin, silicone, wax, spray foam, and found objects, she uses both artificial and bodily materials to explore the relationships between subject and commodity, body and object, and attraction and disgust. Tesoriero transforms familiar symbols of femininity into unsettling, psychologically charged forms, questioning what it means to be looked at, consumed, and reshaped by the expectations of others.
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.
