Reyes-Klein's work combines virtual as well as material objects to create complex visual, audio, and haptic interactions. Often intuitive explorations of form, gesture, and color borne from tessellations of digital waste, Reyes-Klein transforms accidental photos, a digital diary, and advertisements to create meditative engagements with the external. Their interaction with conflicting dualities is depicted through vibrant hues and symbolic acts, and they rely upon digital interactions as a means to engage with the physical. Using a wide range of media including video, sculpture, performance, installation, and works on paper, Reyes-Klein has generated an artistic practice centered around issues of ritual, repetition, and exploring the mundane. Through fantastical works, themes of wholeness as a product of separation, visual and virtual iterations of unestablished futures, re-imagining and de-constructing languages of love and loss, and creating a sense of safety in the intangible, Reyes-Klein utilizes their own body and the imagined corporeal representation of space to create an eclectic and complex practice in effort to further explore their own relationship with cultural contexts and reimagined forms. Heavily influenced by their Jewish and Mexican heritage, American upbringing, as well as queer identity, Reyes-Klein’s practice is centered around subverting themes of wholeness and certainty.
Isabela Reyes-Klein graduated with a BFA in Art and Technology with a fine arts concentration from Mills College in 2022 while dual enrolled at University of California Berkeley. Based in New Orleans, Isabela studying art law at Tulane while continuing to show internationally from Mexico City to San Francisco. Their solo exhibitions include; Hey Cafe!, Holland Project Gallery, the Nevada Museum of Art Film Festival. Group shows at Slide Space Gallery, and Mills Art Museum. Recipient of the Nancy Cook Photography Fellowship. They have collaborated with performance collaboratives such as MOCREP and look forward to creating more opportunities to collaborate and showcase their work.