Übungen zur Verwandlung—Sergio Zevallos

The codes of power run through the body and connect the political with the private. The exhibition Exercises in Transformation - Sergio Zevallos at HKW is dedicated to his over forty-year practice of embodying, exploring and transforming dominant knowledge systems. For Zevallos, the work of transforming imposed patriarchal and colonial knowledge begins in the body, in this very personal and intimate realm, and is realized through performativity, social choreographies and critical realism. The exhibition begins with a series of newly commissioned works by Zevallos, for which he has drawn on Sociedad y Política in his family's archive - a journal founded and edited by the decolonial thinker Anibal Quijano in Peru (1972-1983) and co-edited by the artist's father, Abraham Zevallos. With a selection of Zevallos' earlier works, the exhibition pays tribute to the artist's career and his various artistic experiments with gesture, voice, language and body. A separate interactive space allows visitors to engage with the Archivo Ambulante (Wandering Archive), which was part of Zevallos' performative underground work with the Grupo Chaclacayo collective in Lima and Berlin (1982-1994).

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