Costume as Portal: Uta Bekaia on Queerness, Craft, and Cultural Survival
The article “Costume as Portal: Uta Bekaia on Queerness, Craft, and Cultural Survival” by Laine Kristberga, published on Arterritory (12 July 2025), examines the multidisciplinary practice of artist Uta Bekaia and presents costume as a transformative vehicle for exploring queer identity, ancestral craft traditions, and diasporic cultural survival. It situates Bekaia’s work at the intersection of ritual, materiality, and performance, and highlights how wearable sculpture and textile-based installations enable the reclamation of erased histories and the forging of new cosmologies.