DORO SEROR, GERMANY
May 11–21, 2024
Installation at Haglund Skola
Title: Alma’s return
”In 2019, I created a landscape in the forest adjacent to Haglund Skola (Sweden) that looked like the remains of an abandoned civilization. Over the last five years, nature has appropriated further components of the walk-in landscape installation.
Textile objects have decayed, natural materials such as leaves and grasses have become entangled, and colored elements have been bleached by weather and sun.
In the spirit of searching for traces, I went in search of Alma’s remains of civilization and removed wild entanglements of half-rotted ropes, generating a new order with the dwindling remains.
Days spent dealing with the transformed remains and the future-changing legacies of my human intervention in nature made me reflect on man’s hubris in being able to appropriate nature. Ultimately, we are powerless, even if we imagine that we can gain control over nature. The destruction of nature by humans is gigantic, but nature’s vengeful reaction is astronomical.”
Performance at Human Miracles, Gottsunda
Title: Lucky Charms 2
Duration: 65 minutes
”From items found on site and other relics I create bizarre small objects that I give away to the visitors of the Gottsunda shopping center ”lucky charms” as I invade the territory of these people and with my lucky charms through the various encounters with them I will experience how strangers feel when they come into a new environment and want to contribute themselves, in a way that is unfamiliar to the local residents. All these absurd handicrafts are a means of establishing contact and trust and leaving traces of this encounter in the life of the people.”
Short bio artist: The study of painting and her dance‐body therapy activities are reflected in Doro Seror’s work by the high physical exertion and the vivid visual language.
She deals with current issues of politics, society, environment and her own biography.
Instead of relying on resources of the planet she makes use of trash to create her artworks. She does not only recycle existing objects that would have otherwise ended up in the bin but also reuses her own artworks. As a result, her work is in a constant process of renewal. The audience is deeply involved in the creation of her interactive installations.
Contact info to artist:
www.dorotheaseror.de
www.joy-of-weaving-wwwow.com
Photographers: SU-EN, Fredrik Kollberg
Production: Mon no Kai in collaboration with SU-EN Butoh Company
Supported by: Swedish Arts Council, City of Uppsala – Cultural Affairs Board, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee