Tracksuit Poem (Poema chándal)

Raúl Hevia uses photography and video in his work, underlining the visual quality of written language, the moment in which the verbal turns into image. His work focuses on the way private life is narrated and the contemporary Self finds its forms of expression. His work questions which mechanism of perversion can turn the private into a public act (performance), if private life is presented as a form of spectacle to the other. He reflects on how memory can turn each reality (each ‘self’) into fiction, or what relationships we establish between the content of ‘the archive’ and the perception of the present.

On the 14th of January, Hevia presented Tracksuit Poem (Poema chándal), a new performance developed during his residency, that took the form of a public action in the central library of The Hague.