Carolina Serrano (b. 1994, Funchal, Portugal) lives and works in Lisbon (PT).
Serrano's work and research revolves around the human perception of space and time, the object as a material and temporal body, the dematerialisation of sculpture and the attempt to understand what it means to be human by exploring opposing concepts such as visibility/concealment, freedom/confinement, violence/innocence, light/shadow.
Serrano works mainly with wax, as this material comes closest to the temperature and texture of human skin, and because of the theoretical and conceptual possibilities that this material can originate in the field of the observer's imagination.
The exploration of duality and the antagonisms of existence is manifested in the artist's work through the attempt of creating a place that exists between dualities, in other words, a place-limbo, or a place- between. The .concept of ‘being in-between’, which is linked to the attempt to define what it means to be human, is fundamental to Serrano's work.
Serrano introduces architectural elements, constructing devices that relate directly to the spectator's body. This allows them to experience not only the artworks they are looking at, but to experience themselves in the act of seeing them, always demanding a physical presence and the movement of the visitor's body for the works to fully reveal themselves.