Volaverunt Goya’s engravings revisited by the contemporary eye Temporary exhibition

Anna Dot (Vic, 1991) adopts the expression used by Martín Zapater, a friend of the painter, when discussing him in a letter sent in 1796: "Goya speaks through his hand." Dot imagines that the characters who appear in the engravings also do like the painter and speak through their hands, through gestures, and follow sign language.

In They speak through their hands, some of these gestures become enlarged shadows-a set of copper plates cut into the shape of hands that copy fragments of the illustrations made by Goya-that emerge among the engravings on display. Maybe they hide some hidden message?

The artist also explores textual possibilities based on a set of hand shadows that form letters and words.

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