#FalseSelfie(2016)

Location: La Esquina, Kansas City, MO

Duration: 20 Minutes 

Part of the FleshCrisis Festival

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How accurate can one represent the self through social media? At what point are we just falsifying our lives to the public and are our public personas mere humanlike displays? 

#FalseSelfie is a video performance piece in which I mimicked my natural smile as it was projected over my body. The prerecorded projection played on a loop as I slowly moved closer to the image. Between each crawl, I devoured pig shoots, grease and fat dripping on my skin. Wiping the filth off my face, I primmed myself for a selfie, erasing the evidence of consumption as I captured myimage and uploaded them onto my Facebook.  Eventually the false and real images lined together, the natural and unnatural blending together for the perfect image.