"Informed by Undrowned - Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (2020) by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Utikal’s textile triptych is a space-time gateway, where the artist mourns the forthcoming water animals’ extinctions while fostering an interspecies co-evolution. Utikal combines fabric fragments into large-scale self-portraits, suggesting a dystopian atmosphere where she poetically claims human and more-than-human bodily agency to sit with the solastalgia. Despite the artist embraces the deterioration of the matter, every stitch resurfaces as a painful wound celebrating the traumatic experiences of loss."
Giulia Colletti.

Produced for School of Waters, MEDITERRANEA 19 Young Artists Biennale, Republic of San Marino, May 14 - October 31, 2021

"Informed by Undrowned - Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (2020) by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Utikal’s textile triptych is a space-time gateway, where the artist mourns the forthcoming water animals’ extinctions while fostering an interspecies co-evolution. Utikal combines fabric fragments into large-scale self-portraits, suggesting a dystopian atmosphere where she poetically claims human and more-than-human bodily agency to sit with the solastalgia. Despite the artist embraces the deterioration of the matter, every stitch resurfaces as a painful wound celebrating the traumatic experiences of loss."
Giulia Colletti.

Produced for School of Waters, MEDITERRANEA 19 Young Artists Biennale, Republic of San Marino, May 14 - October 31, 2021