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.
My name is Erin Zerbe, and I'm a multimedia artist working in video, photography, performance, and new media. My work specializes in human interactions and relationships with the body, tackling issues of body image and cultural perceptions of fatness. Currently I teach at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Kinetic Imaging and Art Foundations Departments. Artist. Professor. Troublemaker. I wear my titles with pride.