Portrait

Antoni Muntadas

Barcelona, Spain, 1942
  • Date: 
    1994
  • Edition/serial number: 
    Unlimited
  • Media description: 
    Video (U-Matic, Digital Betacam and DVD)
  • Duration: 
    7 min. 2 sec.
  • Colour: 
    Colour
  • Sound: 
    Sound
  • Category: 
    Video
  • Entry date: 
    2007
  • Register number: 
    AD04708
  • Image credit: 
    Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York (http://www.eai.org)

This work by Muntadas is a slow-motion projection which reproduces the movement of the hands of a politician with no recognisable face. Through the use of metonymy, he analyses non-verbal language and gesture as a power symbol, as a ritual, whereby the most diverse strategies of deterrence are concealed, whilst demonstrating the tensions between the imposition of power norms and the reality of society.

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