“Poetry is as it was, split second decisions mean more that any meditation, what I am able to do in the moment with my arms, thighs, strength, becomes the practice. Constraints then come to mold the poems; in removing myself from harm's way via dispossession, I care as much about my body as I can bear, literally, usually on top of me, up some stairs, down a flight. I am refracted by the tension in these exercises, my wrestling coach taught me to lift with my legs, not my back, its takes practice, it takes an athlete to coax a story from detritus.”
Ser Serpas will be taking part in Tbilisi Residencies / Stamba program in august 2019. Born in 1995, Los Angeles, she received her B.A. in visual arts at Columbia University (2017). Solo and two-person exhibitions include Against Attachment, Ludlow 38, New York, 2019; what we need is another body, Truth and Consequences, Geneva, 2019; Stars are Blind, LC Queissier (with Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi), Tbilisi, 2019; you were created to be so young (self-harm and exercise), LUMA Westbau, Zurich, 2018; Bare Teeth, Queer Thoughts (with Bri Williams), New York, 2018; and Dust Patterns, Current Projects, Miami, 2017. Recent group exhibitions include Company Gallery, New York, 2019; Swiss Institute, New York; Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York; Performance Space, New York, 2018; Karma International, Los Angeles, 2017.
Serpas lives and works in New York.
