Tara Fallaux is a multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam whose work spans photography, filmmaking and film installation. Alongside her own artistic practice she also works as an audiovisual and photography coach and is co-director and curator of the photography platform BUY MY DARLINGS. Her work explores the inner dimensions of human experience, focusing on identity, desire and connection, and how these themes are shaped by wider social dynamics. Women and their environments often play a central role in her projects, where body language, dreams and the intangible become key elements in her inquiry into the human search for meaning and belonging.
Fallaux has directed several acclaimed documentaries, including Over The Rainbow, which portrays the coming out and coming of age journey of her eighty year old aunt. The film premiered at Hot Docs in Toronto and has been screened internationally, receiving multiple awards. Her most recent documentary Love Letters premiered at IDFA in Amsterdam, was nominated for Best International Short Documentary and was selected for The Atlantic Selects by The Atlantic Monthly.
Her recent work includes the film installation I’m Sorry, presented at Powerlong Art Centre in Xiamen in 2024, featuring real time slow motion choreography, black fabric projection, a plastic floor sculpture and a soundscape. Almost There premiered at UNBOUND during UNSEEN 2023 and employs a Pepper’s Ghost hologram, later being selected as Artwork of the Week by De Volkskrant. The multimedia project I Write This Letter in Bed (2022) explores digital representation and identity through the story of a young woman in China and premiered at Galerie Caroline O’Breen. Her book Perfect Pearl, published in 2022, was shortlisted for the Prix du Livre Rencontres d’Arles and Best Dutch Book Design and has been exhibited in Arles and at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, with related work shown internationally at festivals and institutions.
Fallaux’s films and installations have been exhibited at venues and festivals including the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Hot Docs Toronto, Rencontres d’Arles, IDFA, Fotofestival Naarden, Guernsey Photography Festival, Technische Sammlungen Museum Dresden, NYC Independent Film Festival, Lincoln Center for the Arts, The Melkweg Gallery, The Dutch National Portrait Studio and BIG ART Amsterdam.
