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Muntadas
Portrait
Portrait
1994
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The analysis of gesture as a symbol of power articulates equally both Portraits and Portrait. By means of the series of eleven silk-screened photographs that constitute the former, Muntadas explores the discourse in front of the camera, one of the most recurrent images in the media spectrum. The action appears to be isolated in space and time, while the identity of the protagonists is deliberately abstracted, in an attempt to lay bare the factors that configure their respective public images. In this way, the microphone, that authentic emblem of contemporaneity, not only assumes a special significance but also comes to serve as prosthesis or perhaps as the double of the person who uses it.
In Portrait Muntadas resorts to movement in order to investigate the value and purpose of the stereotyped gesture. As if it were some kind of rhythmic choreography, the video shows us a series of hands, without ever letting us see the faces, in whose very variety we perceive the same identical, even monotonous discourse. The slowness with which these anonymous gestures are presented brings out the most unexpected nuances, thus making it possible to reconstruct the range of intentions that they underlies their hypnotic rhetoric.
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original title
Portrait
artist
year of acquisition
1997
type of object
Audiovisual recording
edition number
Ed. 1/6
Copyright
© Muntadas, VEGAP, Barcelona
registration number
R.0836
date
1994
fonds
MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation
media
Single-channel video, colour, sound, loop
credits
MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation
original title
Portrait
registration number
R.0836
artist
date
1994
year of acquisition
1997
fonds
MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation
type of object
Audiovisual recording
media
Single-channel video, colour, sound, loop
edition number
Ed. 1/6
credits
MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation
Copyright
© Muntadas, VEGAP, Barcelona
Stereotype (Psychology)
Gesture
Mass media
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