In SOMA, Katy Beltran (M.F.A. photography) presents work that centers on the ways in which mainstream visual culture objectifies, displaces, and psychologically imprisons feminized and racialized bodies, and demonizes the erotic lives of women. Beltran focuses on the body as both subject and object, and as the very first access point into society and its spaces of power and subjugation. Through photo-based processes, appropriation of popular media, and depictions of disjointed bodies and objects of consumption, she poses multiple visual scenarios, engaging current queer and feminist theories and her personal struggles as a queer Latinx immigrant mother in the U.S., to comment on the effects of hegemonic media culture and representation practices.

Opening reception: Nov. 4, 4:30–6:30 p.m.
Artist talks: Nov. 11, 12:30 p.m. and Nov. 18, 6 p.m.

The exhibition, reception, and artist talks are free and open to the public.

SOMA is presented as part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography, the largest annual community-oriented photo festival in the U.S. 

Colombian-born visual artist Katy Beltran builds her work out of her lived experience as a LatinX, Queer, immigrant to reflect on notions of identity, beauty, and gender.