The project Forgive Us Our Trespasses / Vergib uns unsere Schuld—Of (Un)Real Frontiers, Of (Im)Moralities, and Other Transcendences invites to deliberate on religious, social, class, national, sexual, disciplinary, and other forms of trespassing. The exhibition thinks of real and metaphorical dimensions of trespassing as a tool for asserting one’s rights, humanity, and community, trespassing as a means of epistemic disobedience, as a means of subversion within heteronormative patriarchal and white supremacist structures that propagate gender, racial, sexual, and class inequalities. By putting our bodies on the line performatively, the project also invites us to cogitate on psychosomatic interferences within certain spaces reserved for ‘normative’ bodies. Artists are thus invited to trespass HKW— to resignify its spaces, occupy the lawns, create new common grounds, and make them inhabitable by other trespassers.

If the norm has been inherently exclusive, is there a possibility that the abnormal would be inclusive and more accommodating, and what role can artists play in the imagination of the abnormal as a method? The project Forgive Us Our Trespasses / Vergib uns unsere Schuld—Of (Un)Real Frontiers, Of (Im)Moralities, and Other Transcendences is about queering all that claims normativity. It is about making crooked, about going down the winding paths of life, it is about getting lost and finding oneself again, it is about errantry as a method. The exhibition will run between September 14 and December 8, 2024.

https://www.hkw.de/en/programme/forgive-us-our-trespasses-vergib-uns-unsere-schuld

Image: Sim Chi Yin, The Mountain that Hid & The Suitcase Is A Little Bit Rotten series. Photo by Hannes-Wiedemann, courtesy of HKW