Emily Sarten, Arts and Leisure (Crying), 2020, video

Arts and Leisure (Crying) wishes that anything was real anymore.

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Emily Sarten works between the mediums of video, photography, and installation to explore ideas about gender, desire, consumerism, memory, and technology.

She collects, archives, and remixes found footage from commercials, home movies, and VHS tapes.  She’s interested in the behind-the-scenes of the Las Vegas fantasy and the various reinventions Las Vegas has undergone.

Sarten earned a BFA in Photography and a minor in Film and Media production from Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Emily is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Her work has been featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, AZ and has shown extensively in Arizona and Nevada.

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