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Javier Codesal

Video installation — École des beaux-arts de Toulouse

javier codesal, lectura de manos (lignes de la main), 2002

projection vidéo 15'43"

courtesy galerie estrany)de la mota, barcelone

Born in 1958 in Sabiñánigo (Spain), he lives in Madrid.

 

The poet and filmmaker Javier Codesal is presenting a work from his Arcángel series entitled Lectura de manos (lines of the Hand). This installation shows a woman reading a man’s hand, placing us as spectators in a position where this hand could be our own. The woman speaks softly, offering words of “natural wisdom” about the mysteries of human behaviour, attitudes and actions, the flight of time and loss of love. This is, ultimately, a deliberate, ritual yielding of the self to the scrutinising gaze of the other.