“Victoria Miro z dlîtd t anâns an xibišn bî Sẹra Zi, ẇč spanz ol ʈri spêsz. Ɖs z ɖ ātist’s ʈrd sôlo šo wɖ ɖ gaḷri n hr frst prezntešn in Yṛp sns reprizntñ ɖ Ynîtd Stêts at ɖ 2013 Venis Bienāle.
In ɖ Ẇōfrôd gaḷriz ɖ xibišn cmprîzz ʈri insṭlešnz – wn on č flor – ɖt ɖ ātist hz cnsivd az a siriz v dfṛnt xperimnts ɖt xplor ɖ cnstruẋn n mežrmnt v spês, mas, tîm, n volym ʈru ɖ ys v mtirı̣lz. Č wn trnz ɖ vywr’z sens v scêl, graṿti, n inf̣mešn on its hed. Comn objcts lîc rocs, nyzpêprz, n frničr mytet fṛm smʈñ nôn, t smʈñ foṛn, frajîl, nyli cmpozd, n intîrli trnsfwmd.
Fr ɖ Mêfer gaḷri, Zi hz crietd a fīld v sml sculpčrs ispešli fr ɖ spês, č srvñ az its ôn temprri sait, mācñ a prisîsli cmpozd mmnt. Ɖ sculpčrz, cnsivd az modlz v čanṣcuṛnsz, hîlît ɖ tnšn btwn ɖ ef̣t t map, dsct n undrstand inf̣mešn, n ɖ ineviṭbl mežr v fytiḷti in ɖt ef̣t.
A ny siriz v silcscrīn prints olso māc a sngl mmnt in tîm – 1 Jaňri 2014 – n r bêst on nyzpêprz gaɖrd fṛm arnd ɖ wrld on ɖt dêt, wɖ ol imijz rplest bî dpiẋnz v ɖ midnîtscî. Svṛl wrcs fṛm ɖ siriz r instwld at bʈ ɖ Mêfer n Ẇōfrôd gaḷriz in a sīqns ɖt foloz ɖ ṛtešn v ɖ ŕʈ az wn yir trnd intu ɖ nxt.
Sẹra Zi wz ātist in rezidns at Ɖ Fabric Wrcšop n Myziym in Fiḷdelfia in 2013–14. Ɖ insṭlešnz prizntd in ɖ Ẇōfrôd gaḷriz, md in c̣laḅrešn wɖ Ɖ Fabric Wrcšop n Myziym, hv bn rīcnsivd n rīcnfigrd ispešli fr ɖ Lundn xibišn.
Sẹra Zi wz born in Bostn in 1969 n livz n wrcs in Ny Ywc. Š rsivd a BA fṛm Yêl Ynivrṣti in 1991 n an MFA fṛm ɖ Scūl v Vižl Āts in 1997. A McĀʈr Felo Awōdwinr, š z nôn fr hr lj-scêl insṭlešnz ɖt peṇtret wōlz, sspend fṛm sīlñz, buro intu ɖ grând, n streč acrs myziymz. Zi studid pêntñ n ācitecčr, n inṭsctd ɖz disiplinz t arîv at sculpčr, ẇr hr fwml intrest in lît, er n muvmnt z cupld wɖ an intyitv undrstandñ v comṗzišn, culr n txčr.
Zi’z bodi v wrc adresz qesčnz abt ɖ fṛjiḷti v hymn bhevyr, ɖ dzîr t modl complx sistmz, n ɖ imprṃnns v valy n memri. T xplor ɖz îdiyz, š yṭlîzz miriad evrīde objcts in hr insṭlešnz. Prizntd az trêsz v hymn bhevyr, ɖz îtmz, rlist fṛm ɖer comnplês dyti, aqîr a srtn vîtaḷti n ambišn. Asmblijz v ɖz objcts bcm sistmz, cêṗbl v rnywl, aspirešn n dce, or rpozitriz v memri n valy. Hr wrc ascrîbz a ny undrstandñ v prṗs ẇl qesčnñ ɖ prôses v imbywñ eni mtirı̣l – hand-md or industrı̣li pṛdyst – wɖ wrʈ.
Baygraficl dītêlz
Zi reprizntd ɖ Ynîtd Stêts v America at ɖ 55ʈ Venis Bienāle in 2013. Š hz xibitd inṭnašnli, wɖ sôlo prezntešnz at MUDAM, Luxmbrg (2012); Eža Ssayti, Ny Ywc (2011–12); Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nīs, Frans (2011); Bwltc Sentr fr Cntemprri Āt, Nycasl, YC (2009); Maison Hermès Fwṛm, Tôcio (2008); Malmö Konsthall, Swīdn, (2006); Ẇitni Myziym v Americn Āt, Ny Ywc, (2003); Wōcr Ātsentr, Miniaṗlis (2002); Fondation Cartier in Paris (1999); Myziym v Cntemprri Āt, Šicago (1999); n ICA Lundn (1998). Rīsnt prṃnnt insṭlešnz includ Stiļîf wɖ Landscêp (Modl fr a Habitat), Ɖ Hî Lîn, Ny Ywc n Ɖ Disṭnsz Ẇr Magnits Pl, Ynivrṣti v Califwňa, San Fṛnsisco (bʈ 2011).”
ẆT ĐE SE
Nic Comtn, WŌLPÊPR, 3 Febrri 2015
Łbomīra Cirilova, Đ UPCUMÑ, 31 Jaňri 2015
FÎDN
Jūła Frančescīni, Đ METROṖLIST
