Galerie im Körnerpark · Performance during Finissage

The performance activates Victoria Sarangova’s installation One Horse Left (1931), unfolding from a single archival page that records her great-grandfather’s property loss and her family’s deportation in 1931. Using this document, Sarangova investigates the historical and political systems of expropriation and forced displacement imposed by Russia in Kalmykia, tracing how their legacies continue today. Through slow, deliberate gestures around a bound saddle wrapped in ‘Kalmuck’ cotton and a fluid soundscape, she bridges personal testimony with Kalmyk and Oirat collective histories. This activation reveals the ongoing reverberations of Russian colonial violence and invites reflection on its persistent impact.