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Are.na: Yuli Serfaty
Mutating nature, technology, eroticism and violence, Serfaty’s work investigates how control is encoded into bodies and desires, and how glitch and systemic collapse may lead to an emergent potential.
Drawing on feminist technoscience, systems theory, speculative fiction and field research, Serfaty constructs fictional ecologies populated by hybrid entities - animal, machine and myth - through which she creates spaces where tenderness and violence can co-exist. Her works often use humorous eroticism to disarm, inviting viewers into worlds where the playful and provocative helps to metabolise deeper tensions.
In these environments, violence operates subtly: instincts are shaped by infrastructure, landscapes become tools of regulation, desire is both a biological drive and data under surveillance. Serfaty’s work resists clean binaries between nature and culture, soft and hard, organic and synthetic. Mutation and glitch are not errors but agents of transformation. Her practice imagines alternative ways of ‘being’ within complex systems not through dominance, but through emergence, desire and collective entanglement.
Founder of A Sci-Fi Curriculum, a multimedia reading group discussing womxn and BIPOC Speculative Fiction with a queer lens, 2022-2023
Member of Collective Ending, an artist-run gallery and studio complex in Deptford, South-East London, 2021-present
Slade School of Fine Arts, MFA Fine Art Media, 2018-2021
Central Saint Martins, Animation And Visual Effects, 2018
Central Saint Martins, BA (Hons) Graphic Design, 2014-2016
Shenkar College, BA (Hons) Visual Communications, 2012-2014
Resume
2025
GROUP SHOW WHOS_A_GOOD_GIRL_001.mov (2025) featured at LAS Begins, London Arts Services, London
FAIR MQ9-Reaper (2023) featured at NADA New York, New York
2024
FAIR Hunter, Killer, Father, Lover (2024) screened at Art-o-rama, Marseille
COLLECTION Horny, Aimless & Alone (2024) added to the Lafayette Anticipations collection
GROUP SHOW Hunter, Killer, Father, Lover (2024), Steady States (2021), Politics of a Landscape (2020), and The Belly of The Whale (2019) screened at Festival L'Académie des Mutantes at Capc, Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux, curated by Cedric Fauq
SOLO SHOW Horny, Aimless & Alone, Xxijra Hii Gallery, London, 2024
2023
FAIR Octagon: Collective Ending for Minor Attractions, London
GROUP SHOW Short Lived, Hypha Studios, London
GROUP SHOW Parterra, Parterre Projects, Tel Aviv
BIENNALE Steady States (2021) at The Autonomous Art Biennale, Tel Aviv
2022
RADIO TRANSMISSION Future Artefacts: Picnic Zone at RTM Radio, London
GROUP SHOW Cosmoses at Xxijra Hii, London
FAIR Meta_Fair #2, Moving with_in the complex: independent curating, together with Collective Ending at Garibaldi Railway Station, Milan
GROUP SHOW Skin of Your Teeth at Crypt Gallery, London
2021
GROUP SHOW London Grads Now.21 at Saatchi Gallery, London
GROUP SHOW Financial Times Global Gallery: COP26 Edition, Online
FAIR Udders for Mum at ArtVerona 16, with Spazio Volta and Mattatoio di Roma, Verona,
GROUP SHOW Seam, Stata, Seance at Collective Ending, London
SOLO SHOW Steady States, Arad Contemporary Art Center, Arad
RADIO TRANSMISSION Politics of a Landscape broadcasted at BAMBI WOODS PRESENTS: RADIO TRANSMISSION, Athens
SCREENING Politics of a Landscape screened at DOCUMENTARY: Who Speaks For a Space? London Short Film Festival, London
2020
SOLO SHOW Deserted Landscape, Aqua Gallery, Bat Yam
GROUP SHOW Objects of the Misanthropocene, a Time Travelling Exhibition of Insouciant Objects from the Museum of Beyond, UCL, Online
GROUP SHOW The Sculpture Park, Implied Gallery, Online
GROUP SHOW Terrain Vague, Slade School of Art, London
GROUP SHOW Intimacy Spills, Barbican Arts Trust, London
2019
GROUP SHOW How are you Babe?, Blank 100, London
Member of 🧚 Collective Ending, 2021
Slade Prize 2021 Recipient, 2021
Gazelli.io Artist in Residence, 2021
Sarabande Emerging Artist Award, 2021
Arts Territory Exchange Member, 2020
Arad Contemporary Art Center Artist in Residence, 2020
Press, Publications & talks
A Sci-Fi Curriculum: eROTic Potential, arebyte Gallery, January 2023
A Sci-Fi Curriculum: Wolrdmaking; Fictioning, Chelsea School of Art, November 2022
A Sci-Fi Curriculum: Glitch, Mutate, Dissolve to Water, October 2022, Collective Ending
A Sci-Fi Curriculum: Speech to Realities, July 2022, Online
A Sci-Fi Curriculum: Entagling the Forest, April 2022, Online
Emerging Technologies and Art: Roundtable conversation with UCL Art Futures, London, 2021
A Guided Tour to a Steady State, Gazelli Art House, London, 2021
Artribune, Spazi non profit ad ArtVerona: parola a Giulia Floris, curatrice di Lab1, 2021, IT
British Film Directory, Politics of a Landscape; A Personal Ontology of Southern Israel’s Deserted Territory, 2020, UK
Elephant Magazine, Image of the Day, 2019
Miss Vogue, Grenfel Tshirt Artists, 2019, UK
dpi Magazine, 2018, Taiwan
Creative Lives in Progress, Apply your skill set to more than one thing: Digital designer Yuli Serfaty, 2018, UK
Unauthorized SFMoMA, 2017, USA
Peep Publication, 2017, UKi Hate You So Much Right Now, 2017, IL
Nephilim, 2017, IL
Hover States, 2017, USA
Brutalist Websites, 2017, USA
1Granary, 2016, UK