I became aware of the importance of coverbal gestures when I learned about the existence of NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) especially when I lost, for a time, the use of speech. When we speak, our gestures say as much as our words. Both with the same meaning expressed through different forms. It’s important for the politicians to carefully study every word spoken as well as the gestures they use to support them. I created both forms of a discourse into one symbol of the speech.
It started with a simple idea : What if we put brushes on the fingertips of politicians' speeches? I experienced political discourses as masterpieces of their own and redefined them into a portrait of the speech.
To realise this project I invented my own tool “Le gant pinceau” – “The brush glove” and my own rules: the shape of the created painting will be a square at the size of the politician like the proportions of the Vitruvian Man. It started with a simple idea : What if we put brushes on the fingertips of politicians' speeches? I experienced political discourses as masterpieces of their own and redefined them into a portrait of the speech.
The size of the canvas for Charles de Gaulle's speech is 196 x 196 cm. Martin Luther King's speech canvas is 169 cm x 169 cm in size and the canvas for Adolf Hitler's speech is 175 x 175 cm in size where the size of the created painting follows the measures of each politician. The colours I’ve chosen for my artworks are in relation with the man’s persona, his political discourse and his ideas.
The three performed discourses : Charles de Gaulle ; the President of the Republic / Hitler ; a Dictator / Martin Luther King ; the Man of Peace.