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Sophie Serber, ‘Autophagy II’ (2020). Detail. Photo by Sophie Serber. Courtesy the artist.
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Sophie Serber, ‘Autophagy II’ (2020). Installation view. Photo by Sophie Serber. Courtesy the artist.
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Sophie Serber, ‘Autophagy’ (2020). Installation view. Courtesy Shore, Vienna.
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Sophie Serber, Bracket Sentiment And The Technicolor Yawn (2020). Exhibition view. Courtesy Shore, Vienna.
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Sophie Serber, Bracket Sentiment And The Technicolor Yawn (2020). Exhibition view. Courtesy Shore, Vienna.
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Sophie Serber, Bracket Sentiment And The Technicolor Yawn (2020). Exhibition view. Courtesy Shore, Vienna.
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Sophie Serber, ‘B103’ (2020). Installation view. Courtesy Shore, Vienna.
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Sophie Serber, ‘104b’ (2020). Installation view. Courtesy Shore, Vienna.
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Sophie Serber, ‘241b’ (2020). Detail. Courtesy Shore, Vienna.
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Sophie Serber, ‘b203’ (2020). Detail. Courtesy Shore, Vienna.
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Sophie Serber, ‘Autophagy II’ (2020). Installation view. Courtesy Shore, Vienna.
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Sophie Serber, ‘Autophagy II’ (2020). Detail. Courtesy Shore, Vienna.
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Sophie Serber, ‘Autophagy II’ (2020). Detail. Courtesy Shore, Vienna.

Sophie Serber picks at the scab of an unidentified psychological trigger for her “nauseous, squeamish & horny” show at Vienna’s Shore

, 11 September 2020

Bracket Sentiment And The Technicolor Yawn, a solo exhibition by Sophie Serber, curated by Steph Kretowicz, is on at Vienna’s Shore Gallery, running September 5 to October 24.

Sophie Serber, ‘Autophagy II’ (2020). Detail. Photo by Sophie Serber. Courtesy the artist.

Opened as part of the Austrian capital’s Curated by gallery festival, which closes on September 26, the London-based artist’s show probed the psychological and physical responses to external and internal triggers of various dependencies buried in body memory and trauma. The combined series of new wall works, sculpture, a found object and sound recording are what Kretowicz calls “nauseous, squeamish and horny” in the exhibition’s curatorial essay. It describes Serber’s ambivalent examination of notions of immunity and disgust, communication and connection, as follows:

Sometimes Sophie Serber thinks the words ‘control’ and ‘understanding’ are the same thing. But while it’s often hard for her to understand, it doesn’t stop her from taking control.

You can read a conversation between artist and curator on the site.**

Sophie Serber’s Bracket Sentiment And The Technicolor Yawn solo exhibition, curated by Steph Kretowicz, is on at Vienna’s Shore Gallery from September 5 to October 24, 2020.