Andróginos
(1998–2000)
Tempera, pastel, graphite, collage, and transfer
70 × 100 cm
Sergio Zevallos (Lima, 1962) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin. His work addresses issues of transcultural identity, gender, and the contradictions inherent in the relationships between the individual and power, or between intimacy and the codes of public life. Alongside German artist Helmut Psotta and Peruvian artist Raúl Avellaneda, he was a member of the Chaclacayo Group, a collective known for its visceral and provocative work responding not only to the violence of Peru’s internal armed conflict, but also to deeply rooted sexual and racial discrimination.
Andróginos is a portrait from a larger series in which the artist depicts hybrid figures born from an urban world. Their hybridity is expressed both through the coexistence of disparate organs, physical forms, and sexual traits within a single body, and through the cultural and visual collision captured in a single glance at the crossroads of two jammed avenues in Lima: headlines, cheap newspapers, food scraps, tight jeans, monoxide, urine, neon signs, children, traffic accidents, devotional imagery, grilled chicken.
