Ser Serpas (b. 1995, Los Angeles, California, USA, lives and works in Geneva). Primarily interested in death and legacy, her work is preoccupied with its own urgency in the face of fossilization. At the present, she’s taken to sequestering the mundane while freely quoting art history in it’s full depth, paying little heed to the latter. Through painting, sculpture, drawing and poetry she mashes bits of her life, both real and imagined, into anti portraits, some of which she deems fit to share within the contexts of exhibitions and performances. Precarious assemblages of disparate objects found in the street constitute her most well known series to date. More recently she has taken to using photos shot on her iPhone during college as source material for intimate views on unstretched canvas, wood panel and paper. The unique way she reframes the body in tension, in both her sculptural and text based installations which distort components of our shared architecture, carries into her atypically cropped portions of stolen archetypal intimacy. In all, the work evokes a sense of gravitas and playfulness, one in the same with that which she hopes to communicate on the interpersonal level. Serpas has had solo shows at the LUMA Foundation in Zurich and Ludlow 38 in New York. She took part in the 2020 Made in LA biennial at the Hammer Museum and the Huntington. She was featured in shows at the Pinault Collection, Bourse de Commerce, Paris, Punta Della Dogana, Venice and the Swiss Institute, New York.