28 03 2024 – 03 09 2024
The Uncanny House
group show, curated by Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin
In the wake of the widespread leitmotiv that nourished literary fantasy, fairy tales, horror stories and artistic creation alike since the early 19th century, The Uncanny House investigates the sense of unheimlich within the rooms of the Rome apartment where Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived from 1786 until 1788.
Museum Cada di Goethe
Rome, Italy
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20 03 2024 – 11 08 2024
Even Better Than the Real Thing
Whitney Biennial 2024
Describing sculptures like those included in this exhibition, Ser Serpas has said that “the act of making is a choreographed performance, of which the assemblage is the aftermath.” The performance begins in a city—in this case, New York, and specifically Brooklyn—with the artist collecting discarded objects that speak to her through their color, the ways they have become worn or torn, and their structural openness to being combined. Then she works with the objects’ orifices, odd junctures, and gravity to combine them into provisional sculptures. This process yields a feeling of potential energy just at the moment before an object’s collapse. The resulting sculptures become a kind of dual portrait: first of the city as seen through its cycles of consumption and decay, and then of the artist herself through the expressive choices she has made.
Whitney Museum
New York, USA
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Ser Serpas, taken through back entrances… , 2024 (Whitney Biennial)