"León Ferrari (Argentine, b. 1920) and Mira Schendel (Brazilian, b.
Switzerland, 1919–1988) are considered among the most significant
artists working in Latin America during the second half of the twentieth
century. Their works address language as a major visual subject matter:
the visual body of language, the embodiment of voices as words and
gestures, and language as a metaphor of the worldly aspect of human
existence through the eloquence of naming and writing. They produced
their works in the neighboring countries of Argentina and Brazil
throughout the 1960s and 1980s, when the question of language was
particularly central to Western culture due to the central role taken by
post-structuralism, semiotics, and the philosophy of language" http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/299
and next year at Tate Modern
