Serena Korda

Serena Korda, lives and works in London, making sculpture, sound and performance she considers how communion, ritual and tradition shape our lives.  She plays with ideas of entanglement in a posthuman world, a near future place where we have morphed into our non-human counterparts, celebrating animism whilst challenging an anthropomorphic view of the world. Korda’s sculptures predominantly adopt the awkward and notoriously unforgiving process of ceramics.  Embracing the ancient Zen Buddhist philosophy of Wabi-Sabi in her approach to making she celebrates the cracks, splits, explosions and imperfections that this process thick with transformation allows.  Bodily parts turn into flowers, long reaching fingers probe orifices like Japanese Garden eels popping out of the sea bed, hers is an uncanny vision that delves into witchcraft, spell making and magic whilst taping into imagery and visions of the collective unconscious.

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 Camden Arts Centre, Glasgow International 2016, 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. Recent solo shows include, Missing Time at BALTIC Gateshead, Daughter’s of Necessity at The Hepworth Wakefield 2018, The Bell Tree Trust New Art and Bluecoat 2018 and Missing Time a performance for The High Line NYC 2018. instagram: @serenakorda

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