Adriana García Galán: Visible Voices and Painted Tongues: Indexing the Representation of Vocality in Visual Art Collections

This presentation discusses the methodology of a research project that indexes over six hundred artworks from Colombian art collections to track the representation of vocality. It examines how the process of building and classification of this archive transformed the relationship with these art pieces as visual documents. As a specific case study within this archive, the presentation focuses on how vocality operates in the work of four modern Colombian artists: Débora Arango, Beatriz González, Clemencia Lucena, and María de la Paz Jaramillo. By moving past traditional visual analysis, the project explores how the act of indexing the silent images of shouts, moans, or protests can present a way to think of visual art as an archive itself.