About sera

Baltimore City

Sera Boeno is a sculptor and installation artist from Istanbul, Turkey.  Her praxis is research based and influenced by the sociopolitics of her motherland, which she extrapolates to her current setting. Narratives of and around women in historically silenced topics –politics, sex, religion, trauma– are central to  her work; she explores these topics via para-fiction, “mockuments”, “fauxrcehology”, archival and museological language. Boeno holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College with degrees in… more

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This project portfolio shows image stills from video installation and live animation mixing performance for 2017 Philadelphia Fashion Week's Made Institute Fashion Show. Imagery was inspired from Eastern Orthodox religious iconography, created using assets collected from participating designers, models, artists and their works, to draw a parallel between different types of icons from fashion to pop to religious.  In collaboration with digital artist Fredric Freeman. 
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    Image still from live video performance at 2017 Philadelphia Fashion Week
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    Image still from live video performance at 2017 Philadelphia Fashion Week
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    Image still from live video performance at 2017 Philadelphia Fashion Week
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    Image still from live video performance at 2017 Philadelphia Fashion Week
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    Image still from live video performance at 2017 Philadelphia Fashion Week
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    Image still from live video performance at 2017 Philadelphia Fashion Week
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    Image still from live video performance at 2017 Philadelphia Fashion Week
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    Image still from live video performance at 2017 Philadelphia Fashion Week