Katya Savel (b.1993) is an artist based between Seoul, New York, and Los Cabos. Savel’s work centers the body as ground for critical analysis of the human experience, her own experience and memory, and the nature of reality. She negotiates...
Read MoreKatya Savel (b.1993) is an artist based between Seoul, New York, and Los Cabos. Savel’s work centers the body as ground for critical analysis of the human experience, her own experience and memory, and the nature of reality. She negotiates universal phenomena of body discomfort and dysmorphia and the feeling of being a soul confined in flesh. Savel uses material and technology, analog and digital, as portals for the body to morph, mutate, obstruct, subvert, and reveal. Her work nudges us towards the feminine and spiritual sides of technology, questioning how the Self evolves as the distinctions between human, nature, machine, and the intangible blur. Savel investigates language as the root of human perception and understanding, and linguistic evolution as a path toward new realities. Her practice spans sculpture, installation, video and new media, performance, sound, video games, and analog photography.
Savel holds a B.F.A. in Fine Arts and a B.A. in History of Art from Cornell University. With five years of experience working in machine learning and technology, she now interrogates these same systems from an artistic perspective, exposing their cultural, spiritual, and bodily dimensions. Savel has exhibited in New York (Lume Studios, Times Square), Seoul (CICA Museum, INGAHEE Gallery), and Daegu (021 Gallery), among others.
