Yuli Serfaty, born in Israel 1992.

Serfaty confronts and subverts the masculinised imagery of warfare throughout an imagined world. Exploring the intersection of sexuality and destruction, Serfaty deconstructs phallic symbolism inherent in weaponry design, the vulnerability and precarity of land as a manifestation of complex social structures.

 

An exploration of soft power where boundaries between nature and authority blur, challenging our perceptions of what is ‘natural’ and how we wield it as a tool for dominance.

 

A multimedia artist using fictional narratives to critically highlight the interdependence between systems, power and the natural world by analysing ecological entanglements, how we contrai them, and especially, how we fail. Serfaty conducts site visits to wild landscapes in which she records sounds, videos, photographs and 3D scans of geomorphology, biologies, infrastructure, signais and overhead flight routes. lnspired by artistic worldbuilding as well as governmental terraforming, her work is research based and incorporates installations of sculpture, film, writing, new media and sound. Serfaty complements her findings with academic readings on the effects of local natural resource management, industry, military bases and tests sites on landscape and local communities. She then collates materials, abjects and digital files alongside open source data, and establishes connections using speculative writing methodologies.

Xxijra Hii is a gallery in Deptford, London UK. Founded in 2020, the gallery formed du ring an unprecedented moment that required new approaches ta showing and seeing art. A temporary shift in engagement which embraced digital and at-a-distance viewing experiences allowed the gallery to more clearly define its programme and how we want to engage with our communities, in-persan and online, reaching across bath local and global audiences.

 

We celebrate artists who are on the edges of conventional practice, often exploring unusual mediums, new processes, collaborations or presenting theory and allegory in a new light. We like the uncanny; the art which makes us question what we know or what we think we know. We explore the art which allows some humility, especially when looking at difficult subject matter. This balance of asking difficult questions in art and allowing the ability to feel a certain warmth in exploring this commentary brings us joy. The gallery now represents a growing roster of artists, ta king pride in our advocacy of emerging artists and those who might be returning ta their practice following a prolonged period of transition or development. We work with our artists to enable democratic permutations of our programme, with a focus on skill-sharing and collaborative research and ideas.

 

Together with Studio/Chapple we occupy the same street in London and have collaborated on numerous events and coordinated openings, leading us to apply to Dialogue together and bring our slice of south London to Marseille.

 

Represented artists:
Lala Majid + Louis Blue Newby
Glen Pudvine
Hannah Morgan
David Micheaud