Daria Serkova | Symbiotic Drift
Daria Serkova is an artist and educator whose practice explores personal transformation, cultural displacement, and the material traces of adaptation. Trained as a painter, she works across sculpture, performance, video, and animation, allowing form to follow meaning. Her practice often shifts between the human scale and broader ecological or technological systems, engaging with themes of identity, biology, and post-humanism.
Having lived and worked in Russia, Vietnam, and China, Serkova’s work reflects the psychological and physical effects of migration and immersion in different cultural codes. Everyday materials and symbolic forms—such as plastic chairs or intestinal shapes—become metaphors for unseen tensions, inner turmoil, and the fragile boundaries between individual and collective existence.
Her recent projects investigate indirect presence and invisible systems of control, seeking to render visible what is often felt but rarely articulated. Through collaborative animation, experimental video, and tactile sculpture, Serkova creates fragments of experience that remain open-ended, poetic, and quietly political.
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Red Chairs, 2025, acrylic on canvas, plastic chairs, 73 x 73 in
Tides of Adaptation, 2025, wire, clay, gouache, wooden stand, gold leaf, 13.8 × 13.8 × 9.8 in
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