This is a short documentation of a much longer video installation shown in the Fox 3 Gallery at The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD as part of the MFA show for Photographic and Electronic Media. This piece deals with a few layers of beauty, self image, and narcissistic rituals as they relate to social media and social networking sites. Original run time of 36:07 minutes, the piece shows one long take of the process of applying the “face” and what implicates many women to get trapped in a cycle of daily beauty rituals.
Erin Zerbe is a multimedia artist working in video, photography, performance, and new media. Her work specializes in human interactions and relationships with the body. Currently she is teaching at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Art Foundations and Kinetic Imaging Departments. In her free time, Erin works as a professional plus-size model and make up artist.