The Poetry Project

stefa marin alarcon

stefa marin alarcon gazes toward the camera with intent softness as a pool of warm orange and red light illuminates their left eye and dissipates across their face. Their nose pierced with a safety pin and a septum ring while the shadow of their ear discloses a small round earring. They are lit from behind with a small blue light deep in the image’s background, most of their head and collar left in dark silhouette.
© Lissyelle Laricchia

stefa marin alarcon aka STEFA* is a genderless, genreless vocalist, composer and multi-media performance artist born and raised in Queens, NY. Using an amalgamation of punk, experimental rage pop, and classical minimalism with queer maximalist aesthetics, stefa builds worlds that offer a somatic decolonial respite for the misfits, the displaced, and future generations of Brown and Indigenous radical artists of the diaspora. Their ritual film Born With An Extra Rib won the 2022 Queer|Art Recent Work Prize and a 2023 TRANSlations Seattle FIlm Festival Jury Award. Their debut album will be released Spring 2024 on Figure & Ground Records. @stefalives

https://www.stefalives.com