Romanesco, 2024
Serena Korda (born. 1979, London) has a multi-media, installation-based practice that has 'world-building' at its core. Weaving together a host of influences her work channels and challenges the myths, folklore, witchcraft and magic from which she draws inspiration. Korda reviews historic narratives through a feminist lens, reworking them to create her own idiosyncratic mythology. Ritual is continually investigated as part of Korda's practice, specifically its historic role within violence. Many of Korda's audio works investigate how to make invisible forces palpable and create an environment of care in a world that is turning on itself. As such her practice challenges an anthropocentric vision of the world; the animism of objects is celebrated, the violence of humans laid bare.
Serena was awarded the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Artists Award 2021 and was the Norma Lipan/BALTIC Fellow in Ceramic Sculpture at Newcastle University 2016- 2018. She has exhibited widely, including at BALTIC Gateshead, Camden Arts Centre, Glasgow International, Hayward Gallery, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wellcome Collection, Turner Contemporary and The Tetley, she has also created numerous public art commissions, including W.A.M.A the Work as Movement Archive 2012 and Black Diamond 2015.
Serena has an upcoming solo exhibition at East Quay in September 2024 and is represented by Cooke Latham Gallery.
Serena says:
I have a host of moulds that I have created and use as a library of textures and images that recur in my sculptures, for "Romanesco" I used a mould I made from a Romanesco cabbage, the fractal fronds of this remarkable vegetable become distorted in the silicone mould and even further in the melted wax presenting possibilities for creating hybrid forms.
Unique work, cast in bronze, approx. H: 2.9 cm x L: 5 cm x D: 3.2 cm
Price: £1,500
