Visible Voices and Painted Tongues is a transdisciplinary Research+Creation project that explores the vocal gesture as a fundamental interstice where the biological animal and the political animal converge.

 

This investigation addresses the perceptual contradiction of the represented voice, analyzing how the silent image of a shout or a moan can break institutional stillness to resonate physically within the observer.

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Although a recent stage of the project focused on four pivotal figures of Colombian modernism like Débora Arango, Beatriz González, Clemencia Lucena, and María de la Paz Jaramillo, the scope is significantly more extensive.

 

The research encompasses a vast corpus of over six hundred indexed works, spanning from the theological and symbolic weight of the voice in Colonial art to the biting vocality of political caricature and contemporary artistic drifts.