KELLY O
It’s going to be impossible to put Mario Lemafa into a few words. Lemafa’s preferred pronoun is “they,” and they are many identities—queer, working class, a native Hawaiian of Samoan descent who, in childhood, moved 15 times in the state of Washington alone. Their art is any medium that is close at hand and doesn’t require studio space, from manipulated aloha shirts and tropical-scented cleaning solutions to dreamily looped and layered digital collages to performances of restless bodies…
