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Matanah Betko's performance based practice is an exploration of how intimacy is communicated through the body and affected by socio-political hierarchies, personal histories, biases and assumptions. Often their performances, objects, and installations communicate a rejection of ideas that hold social authority like gender and class. Fascinated by the will to live and a willingness to die, Betko uses nonverbal communication through contact improv and dance, textile printing and construction, bronze and aluminum casting, steel fabrication and forging, soil building and flora to celebrate this life and all the misery and ecstasy included. By distorting the familiar, this work provokes uncertainty and wonder in order to disrupt our understanding of what we think we know about what we see.
Just like everyone else, Matanah Betko is special. They make art about themself to remind everyone of who they are because otherwise we might forget. The most impressive thing about them is their story. Their artwork is “really lovely but just not what we’re looking for”, and their memoir is worth $4,300. Betko is the oldest of five children and considering a career in law. They had a cult following until the age of eighteen and went to college. Now they’re just like everyone else.
Just like everyone else, Matanah Betko is special. They make art about themself to remind everyone of who they are because otherwise we might forget. The most impressive thing about them is their story. Their artwork is “really lovely but just not what we’re looking for”, and their memoir is worth $4,300. Betko is the oldest of five children and considering a career in law. They had a cult following until the age of eighteen and went to college. Now they’re just like everyone else.
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