Published by JRP|Editions. Edited by Ser Serpas, Mohamed Almusibli. Text by Alexander Alberro, Nora M. Alter, Mohamed Almusibli, Patrick R. Crowley.
Published with Kunsthalle Basel.
This volume is the most comprehensive publication to date on the work of Los Angeles–born artist Ser Serpas (born 1995), whose oeuvre incorporates corporeal and poetic forms of expression across both painting and sculpture. Loogie traces the first decade of the artist's multidisciplinary practice antichronologically, bringing together 650 illustrations alongside newly commissioned texts. Her work investigates boundaries between the body (most often represented nude and fragmented), time and the ephemeral images that lie in-between, as well as the notions of identity, intimacy, sexuality and theatricality. Her sculptures are built around discarded objects that bear the traces of their past uses—a collection of disparate elements that she assembles to create free-standing works playing with materiality and transformation as the "aftermath of a private performance or choreography." She considers this process of composition a crucial phase of her process, as the objects acquire new significance when brought together.
