Ser Serpas and Bri Williams at Queer Thoughts

Artists: Ser Serpas and Bri Williams

Exhibition title: Bare Teeth

Venue: Queer Thoughts, New York, US

Date: January 27 – February 25, 2018

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Queer Thoughts, New York

Now you are in trouble. It’s fashionable to wear it on your face for everyone to see.
A liquid sword sounds about right. Smite me long enough to stay relevant. I stay in death and revel, the collate body epic of just not enough, nor in the right spots think its protectorate.
Can’t do much of anything else until the teeth show themselves. How long can i look down as my hunch grows and my shoulders lower while I die? It can’t be controlled and it can’t go unnoticed. Thats why I hide. Please don’t embarrass me by engaging with me at all or being nice, shits veiled. Shits so veiled and I’ll never get married.
I’ll never get married.
I will honestly electrocute you if you play dead. I do not long to be encased in skin, but I was there when the heat released me. I’m not your baby and I’ll leave you.
I’ll kill you, too.

Ser Brandon-Castro Serpas is a poet and sculptor born in Los Angeles, CA. She lives and works between New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA. Serpas received her B.A. in visual arts at Columbia University and has recently exhibited or performed at MoMA PS1, New York , Bridget Donahue, New York, Karma International, Los Angeles, What Pipeline, Detroit, Bodega, New York, SculptureCenter, New York and the Serpentine Gallery, London.

Bri Williams (b.1993) is a video and mixed media artist living and working in Long Beach, CA. Williams utilizes guerrilla methodological techniques such as assemblage and collage to compose a diaristic poetry that focuses on the psychological themes of exile. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from Mills College.

Ser Serpas and Bri Williams, Bare Teeth, 2018, exhibition view, Queer Thoughts, New York

Bri Williams, Sword in Stone, 2018, Soap, mirror shard, suede thread. 25h x 10w x 10d inches

Bri Williams, Curb Stomp, 2018, Wax, candy bones, candy fish, Christmas light bulbs, chewed gum, pillow sheet. 29.5h x 23w inches

Bri Williams, Ashes to Ashes, 2018, Glitter glue transfer on wall. 37h x 50w inches

Ser Serpas, pay to cum (what i thought), 2017, Clay, leather, metal, rotting berries, weathered fabric, 43h x 33w x 13d

Ser Serpas, pay to cum (i knew), 2017, Clay, leather, metal, stickers, rotting berries, weathered fabric, 43h x 21w x 21d inches

Ser Serpas, pay to cum (but didn’t), 2017, Clay, leather, plastic elements, metal, rotting berries, weathered fabric. 43h x 21w x 13d inches