A short glance or a long one a turning hand a finger pointing forwards or withdrawing: the
movements we perform during a conversation are countless and the meanings that small gestures
can have are no less numerous. Unlike language this meaning is hardly codified and difficult
to define - and yet a conversation cannot do without them. Gestures remind us that a person not
only has a body but is a body. Gestures are bodies in articulation and this goes far beyond
the possibilities of spoken language. Gestures begin where words end they open up a path to
the barely utterable. Whether in everyday life politics or art: in its gestures the body
takes to the stage unfolding a meaning that language knows nothing about.
