Mariana Rodela is a Mexican American interdisciplinary artist from Southern California working predominantly in sculpture, video, and social practice. Her work explores the use of play as a subversive entity against late stage capitalism and work. Often encouraging her viewers to reconsider their relationship to play and labor while dispelling the notion that we should be productive at all times. In addition, her practice relies on hyper site-specificity, responding and intervening to a given space. Currently, since her studio is underneath the bleachers of a soccer stadium, she is examining the wealth, spectacle, community, labor, body, and other social issues surrounding globalized soccer and stadiums. Mariana graduated from the University of California Riverside with a BA in Studio Art and a BA in Art History. Currently, she is an MFA candidate at the University of California Santa Barbara. She lives and works in Santa Barbara.