Matanah Breza Betko's Projects

BFA Student

Major: Sculpture

Graduation Year: 2020

Artist Statement:

Matanah-breza’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. They are fueled and fascinated by the will to live and a willingness to die. Matanah makes babies out of plaster, aluminum, sand, and bronze and takes family portraits with them to celebrate. 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.

Biography:

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.

www.matanahbrezabetko.com
Instagram: @matanah.sings