KAT SOTELO

Kat Sotelo utilizes gesture, character tropes, and set pieces to build realms in the threshold of the ordinary and the extraordinary. These compositions evoke notions of fantasy and absurdity, cinema vs. ephemera. Her choreography of moments playfully take stage in untraditional, uncontrolled environments - allowing the artist to investigate performance within the framework of chance and everyday life. Her current work focuses on decolonization from the perspective of a first generation Filipinx femme. Exploring her body as a site of fetishization in the American social landscape, she scrutinizes her relationship to “whiteness” through acts of deep humor and sorrow. Sotelo received her BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2009) and is based between Brooklyn, NY and New Orleans, LA.

www.katsotelo.com
Photo: Sarrah Danziger