Ser Serpas
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The artwork features the word "DOCENT" prominently displayed in a clean, minimalist style against a plain white background. The use of a single grayscale color palette and the simple, unadorned composition create a stark, bold visual impact. The text-based design suggests an exploration of language and its meaning, potentially referencing the role of a docent or museum guide in interpreting and contextualizing artworks. The overall aesthetic reflects a contemporary, conceptual approach to visual communication. ...
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Ser Serpas
B.1995Ser Serpas’s practice exists at the blurred intersection of art, poetry and activism. Whether creating sculptures from debris found on the street, working with a hoard of fabric gifted by her friends, making an exhibition out of objects she found at the exhibition site, drawing in public spaces, or writing on train rides, Serpas makes work that complicates the notion of materiality amidst the late-capitalist condition. Created in private, intimate, seemingly improvised moments, the works are never fully -visible to her audiences. The artist’s exhibitions are composed of assemblages of discarded and mistreated objects turned corporeal, becoming what the artist calls ‘assisted readymades’. Subverting Duchamp’s readymades and Rauschenberg’s Combines – the male-dominated history of sculpture – Serpas returns the objects to the streets after her exhibitions, allowing them to revert to their original state and provokes playful questions about the value of the space inside a museum, as opposed to the outside. An activist since high -school, the artist speaks up about structural inequalities, and provides support through facilitated workshops, community aid and artistic inspiration. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...