Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi and Ser Serpas at LC QUEISSER

Artists: Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi and Ser Serpas

Exhibition title: Stars are Blind

Venue: LC QUEISSER, Tbilisi, Georgia

Date: February 17– May 5, 2019

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and LC QUEISSER

ever feel different
had a change of heart
kicked a book
down my ravine
i wish
you were predictable
back to plucking
ephemera shutters
conversation with skin
too deep and i think
i cut my
ring finger

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi is a Zurich-based artist. Recent group exhibitions include Room of Requirement, NEST, Zurich (2018); Les Urbaines, Espace Arlaud, Lausanne (2018); ich, since my pinky points at me, double exhibition with Deborah Holman, Alienze, Lausanne (2018); YGRG14x Reading with the Single Hand II, Performance with Young Girl Reading Group, Mikro Zürich (2017); What we share, Khôra Zürich (2017); Performance with Young Girl Reading Group, Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt 2017, Kunsthalle Basel (2017). Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi is currently participating in the recidency program Tbilisi Residencies / Stamba.

Ser Serpas lives and works between New York and Los Angeles and received her B.A. in visual arts at Columbia University (2017). Solo and two person exhibitions include you were created to be so young (self-harm and exercise), LUMA Westbau, Zurich; Bare Teeth, Queer Thoughts, (with Bri Williams); Queer Thoughts, New York (both 2018); Dust Patterns, Current Projects, Miami (2017). Recent group exhibitions include Swiss Institute, New York; Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York; Performance Space New York (all 2018); Karma International, Los Angeles (2017). Serpas’ work is in public collections at the LUMA Fountion, Zurich and the Rubell Family Foundation, Miami, FL.

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi and Ser Serpas, Stars are Blind, 2019, exhibition view, LC QUEISSER, Tbilisi

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi and Ser Serpas, Stars are Blind, 2019, exhibition view, LC QUEISSER, Tbilisi

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi and Ser Serpas, Stars are Blind, 2019, exhibition view, LC QUEISSER, Tbilisi

Ser Serpas, Through the loop and the belt, 2019, Car parts, glas, stones, pipes, 220 x 122 cm

Ser Serpas, Through the loop and the belt, 2019, Car parts, glas, stones, pipes, 220 x 122 cm

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi, Untitled (mirror), 2019, Tin, steel, mirror foil, rhinestone chain, artificial flowers, paint, 120 x 85 x 10 cm

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi, Untitled (mirror), 2019, Tin, steel, mirror foil, rhinestone chain, artificial flowers, paint, 120 x 85 x 10 cm

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi, Untitled (mirror), 2019, Tin, steel, mirror foil, rhinestone chain, artificial flowers, paint, 120 x 85 x 10 cm

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi and Ser Serpas, Stars are Blind, 2019, exhibition view, LC QUEISSER, Tbilisi

Ser Serpas, You found it in people, 2019, Sink, car parts, 72 x 55 x 67 cm

Ser Serpas, You found it in people, 2019, Sink, car parts, 72 x 55 x 67 cm

Ser Serpas, You found it in people, 2019, Sink, car parts, 72 x 55 x 67 cm

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi and Ser Serpas, Stars are Blind, 2019, exhibition view, LC QUEISSER, Tbilisi

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi and Ser Serpas, Stars are Blind, 2019, exhibition view, LC QUEISSER, Tbilisi

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi and Ser Serpas, Stars are Blind, 2019, exhibition view, LC QUEISSER, Tbilisi

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi and Ser Serpas, Stars are Blind, 2019, exhibition view, LC QUEISSER, Tbilisi

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi and Ser Serpas, Stars are Blind, 2019, exhibition view, LC QUEISSER, Tbilisi

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi, Bullets in a Garden, 2019, Tin, steel, fabric, eyelets, mirror foil, rhinestone chains, artificial flowers, paint, 64 x 85 x 10 cm

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi, Luminous Suchness, 2019, Tin, steel, fabric, mirror foil, rhinestones, artificial flower, paint, 64 x 85 x 10 cm

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi and Ser Serpas, Stars are Blind, 2019, exhibition view, LC QUEISSER, Tbilisi

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi and Ser Serpas, Stars are Blind, 2019, exhibition view, LC QUEISSER, Tbilisi

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi and Ser Serpas, Stars are Blind, 2019, exhibition view, LC QUEISSER, Tbilisi

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi, Untitled (still life 2), 2019, Ceramic, rhinestone, flowers, 10 x 10 cm