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Serena Elston

Chicago, IL

Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities

FY2025

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Serena Elston is one of nine winners of the 2024 Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award is designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work of disabled Midwestern visual artists.

“I am a transdisciplinary sculptor contemplating the body and its relationship to structures of power. My research-based practice explores ecology, posthumanism, disability, and embodiment through a post-colonial lens. At its core, my practice asks if an institution has the power to disable a body, does the body have the power to disable an institution? Grappling with the identity of disability, I depict figures in various stages of decomposition and incompleteness. My work seeks to make visible the precarious materiality of structures to reveal them as inherently temporal.”

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