FAKE BODY
Saturday the 13th of May. 13:00 – 18:00
13/05/2023 – 27/05/2023

FAKE BODY refers to a TikTok hashtag used to trick algorithmic moderators in order to avoid videos becoming flagged for containing partial nudity. The need to circumvent the automation and commodification of desires and personas through networked technologies is a duo concern for artists Lana May Fleming and Luke van Gelderen. By contrasting contemporary masculine identities, celebrity culture, and the modified female body with the pressure of unattainable
perfection, their work speaks to the increasing difficulty of separating one’s own self-perception from the personas of those we consume. By placing these practices in conversation with one another, this duo exhibition hosts a dialogue on how identities are produced, the self-imposed objectification of the body, and the performance of vulnerability as a marker for authenticity.

Lana May Fleming is a Dublin based visual artist working across video, performance and sculpture, her practice explores the modification of food imagery and the female body into desirable objects for consumption. Selected exhibitions and awards include: Watering Hole, DIVA, Dublin (2022); meat clown, aerial, Bergen (2022); MILF (Mother I’d Like to Eat), prøverommet and BEK , Bergen (2022); you breathe differently down here, Draíocht Gallery (2022); Mart annual Awards Exhibition, Mart HX Studios, Dublin (2021); ‘To be consumed in totality’, aemi and Kevin Gaffney, PhotoIreland Festival (2021); Fingal County Council Artist Support scheme (2023); Studio Residency, SÍM, Reykjavík (2022); Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award (2021); IADT/Pallas Project/Studios Mentorship Award (2020); Fingal Graduate Residency Award with Mart Gallery and Studios (2020).

Luke van Gelderen is a Dublin based visual artist who’s multidisciplinary practice explores digital image cultures, focusing on how contemporary identities are performed for and mediated by technology. Selected exhibitions and awards include: unrecognisable spillway, Ormond Art Studios (2020); My Activity, Rua Red (2019); Chatroullete, K4 Galleri, Oslo (2019); you breathe differently down here, Draíocht Gallery (2022); Rendering New Realities – Access and Alterity, The Douglas Hyde Gallery (2021); Project Studio, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (2023); Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary (2022); Recent Graduate Residency, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (2022); Studio Residency, SÍM, Reykjavík (2022); Studio Residency, BEK, Bergen (2022); DLRCOCO Emerging Artist Bursary (2022); Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award (2021); Ormond Art Studios Graduate Award (2020).

This exhibition is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, DLRCOCO and Fingal County Council.