Levi van Gelder @Mutter, Amsterdam September 16 — October 01, 2023
Cryodesiccated mummy and freelance fanfiction entrepreneur Ötza invites you to her (posthu)man cave at Mutter, where she shares her fanfiction at her first solo show Ötza, Ontologically Speaking. Collaboratively developed by Levi van Gelder and Leila El Alaoui, this uncanny 5300 year old drag character propels herself into different universes and fandoms—from The L Word (2004) to The Hunger Games (2012)—in an attempt to rewrite her own story that has been (unfairly) extrapolated from scientific reconstructions. Fact and fiction blur, or even disintegrate, as Ötza playfully switches between her multiple cultural identities, lamenting her position in the world as cryodesiccated corpse, primeval Man, scientific subject, tourist spectacle, fanfiction writer, queer individual or struggling artist in contemporary Amsterdam.
Ötza, Ontologically Speaking Confessions of a Cryodesiccated Fanfiction Entrepreneur From the Neolithic Levi van Gelder
Mutter, Amsterdam September 16 — October 01, 2023
Photography: Giovanni Salice/ All images copyright and courtesy of the artists and gallery.