Song Visual
Title: Song Visual
Year: 2012
Measures: 45.5 x 61,5 cm
Technique: Screen printing
Edition: PA 12/21
For his exhibition Song Visual, MAVI, the artist designed this logo based on typography of a holiday card hand-made by her stepdaughter Claire Linn, then 15 years. To investigate more about the origin of the typography, it was found with its referent, FingerSpeller BF, designed by John Bomparte using American Sign Language (ASL). Benitez adopted most of their lyrics re-drawing them using their own hands and by adding letters in Sign Language Chilean (Lcsh), which differ in ASL: the old T, the S and the U.
Song Visual explored the wealth of communicative and literary sign language to transform, in conjunction with the Deaf community, the Museo de Artes Visuales (MAVI), in Santiago, in a school of sign language. An interdisciplinary space, experimental and collective around the Sign Language Chilean (Lcsh), which suspended the powers exercised by a majority language able to communicate orally on a minority language that communicates in sign language. The work was activated for ways to enrich the communication between people, in central spaces of the visual arts, considering perspectives often ignored.



