I construct these worlds by transforming everyday gathered materials into symbolic forms using paint, textile, and other accessible means. These materials include mass-produced goods, found objects, and organic remains. They become embodiments of shared stories and affects, acting as witnesses and agents within our collective imaginings. In the resulting installations, these material elements enter into dialogue with sound, voice, video and performativity, using juxtaposition to blend individual accounts. The environments function as experimental stages and critical theme parks, where research and fiction coexist, enabling the audience to experientially inhabit the alternative realities we envision.
The form and content of the work are developed through conversations, workshops, and fieldwork I organize with participants. I initiate this process by introducing specific archetypes of horror—figures that reference histories of violence, social injustice, and queer ecologies—as conduits for dialogue. Through these encounters, we share perspectives, negotiate life experiences, and collectively reimagine possible worlds. This process of collaborative imagining and storytelling becomes the relational foundation of the work, channeling multiple voices (human and non-human) into the resignification of symbols and myths.
Natalia (Nika) Sorzano is a Colombian artist based in Rotterdam, working primarily with mixed media installations comprising sculpture, painting, music and performances-to-video. With a BA in law and art, she began her career as a human rights researcher and policymaker, mediating between LGBTIQ+ activists and the Colombian government. This experience shaped her understanding of politics, dis/identity and relation—central themes in her artistic practice. She finished her MFA degree (cum laude) at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2016. She is co-founder of the facilitative platform GHOST and the queer artist-run community space Tender Center Rotterdam. She currently works as an educator and researcher at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and is a tutor for the MFA Monstrous Futurities of the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. She is also a board member for Papaya Kuir, an activist organization supporting immigrant Latinx queer communities.
Her individual and collaborative work has been shown in spaces such as Rewire Festival (The Hague, 2025), Matadero (Madrid, 2024), Radius CCA (Delft, 2023), O Festival for Opera, Music, Theater (Rotterdam, 2023), Artspace (Sydney, 2022), TENT (Rotterdam, 2021), Montez Press Radio (New York, 2020), Veem House for Performance (Amsterdam, 2019), Salón Nacional de Artistas de Colombia (Bogotá, 2019), and MACBA (Barcelona, 2017).