Scores for Political Desires
Sergio Zevallos
Scores for Political Desires
The work Zevallos unfolded during his residency in Villa Romana is an ongoing study of the artist on discourses of current politics as a sentimental/violent territory. Through the processing of speech and voice, everything becomes sensualized, the anatomy returns to organic live. The resulting vocal compositions are then tools of a subversive language: the speech as a failed doctrine, the narrative as emotional subject, and the spell as a form of resistance.

Villa Romana Collection

The publication of the winners of the Villa Romana Prize has taken the shape of four distinct yet interrelated booklets – an editorial series continuing the tradition of the institution to offer a space for the dissemination and reverberation of the research and work of the Villa Romana Fellows after their ten-months residency in Florence.
Each year, four selected artists are invited to live and work in the same house that, since 1905, generations of artists have continuously inhabited. They always come as a group – a constellation of four people – but all as singular artists. The opportunity of yearly publishing their work in a bundle of four separate books and within an open series allows for a larger combination of echoes across the generations of Villa Romana Fellows. A further occasion for “being singular plural.”

 

Sergio Zevallos

Contributions by Elena Agudio

Design by Archive Ensemble

Co-published with Villa Romana Fellow 2023

The publication has been financed by Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Deutsche Bank Stiftung, Bao Stiftung.

Softcover, 92 pages
10,00 €