Posted On: June 6th 2026, 08:11 am
💎 Shining a spotlight on Day School 25/26 Artists Serena de la Fuente and Erika Cann 💎
Image 1: Serena de la Fuente is an artist living and working in Somerset whose practice spans installation, drawing, sculpture, moving-image and performance.
Serena’s (@zerenaura) practice explores the fallibility of memory and precariousness of selfhood under surveillance in the digital age, searching for human moments in imperfect resemblances and unpredictable outcomes. Her images pull on material from collective memory (such as film, traditions or books), open source software, and moments from her own heritage and autobiography.
2: D to D asset, Photogrammetry model, 2026
D to D seeks to explore the ´thingness´ of a dandelion weed, a plant notorious for disintegrating. Re-contextualising motifs associated with loss, the work draws on memories of childhood back gardens, laughter, and magical thinking.
3: Aerial Reflect, Wood framed mirror, Hairspray, Fixative, Bike rack bungee cord, 2025
This work changes itself depending on what angle you look at it, following you around the room.
4: Cache Control (After Michael Haneke’s Caché 2005), Performance and Film, 2023 - ongoing
This participatory work considers how gestures and eye movements are tracked by corporations during our time online, exploring how our bodies become unwilling cursors when using everyday devices.
Visitors were invited to interact with a live stream which the artist manipulated to reflect participant’s movements in real time.
Erika Cann’s sculptural practice playfully explores the relationship between bodies and geologies, drawing on her experience as a rock climber. From stories gathered in the landscape, she creates speculative folkloric narratives that imagine what the deep-time future might look and feel like.
Images 5-8: Erika’s (@erikac_art) sculptures are created from climbing wall fragments, rope, fossilised shell fragments, granite fragments and earrings.