Claiming mouths move relentlessly. Possible answers are embodied by the rhetoric of one of the characters. The vicissitudes of several lives can be condensed in a compendium of hands doing different things. Meanwhile, the staccato heel tapping of a flamenco dancer keeps the beat of his tense body. A little boy wandering around his neighborhood is unaware of a camera that captures him day in day out. So is an old prostitute, but it is the loving gesture of her visitors what restores her humanity and escorts her to death. A face reflected in the water of the hollow of a hand inevitably thins out and disappears. The body hosts the ancestral memory of natural and even cultural movements. The body often speaks before words. It is the tool of magicians and shamans as well as choreographers, actors and dancers. This selection of video installations from different South American collections focuse on the communication powers of the body and how visual artists resort to it. Either through fragments and details or in a more comprehensive way, by means of gesticulation or the expressive nature of dance, the body -the matter of these videos- denounces, highlights and evokes the fugacity of experience and movement, the basic needs of existence and the brevity of life.
