The Third Mouth engages deeply with the materiality of language, exploring its embodied mechanics and transformative power. The installation unfolds across three simultaneous video exercises, each dissecting the corporeal processes of speech. Through English, Spanish, and the body itself, voice emerges as a pliable force, tracing its path from teeth and tongue to throat—highlighting the physicality of language and its inherent disjunctions. In this tension, the self is both anchored and undone as gestures and sounds manifest.

A repetitive mantra, ominous yet hypnotic, unravels like a golden thread within the space, transforming the mouth into a site of both violence and mediation. The three video channels exist independently, never converging in a single frame, creating a deliberate fragmentation of experience. A soundscape unites these streams, inviting synesthetic engagement, where the viewer’s perception of absence and presence constantly shifts.

In its interplay of fragmentation and convergence, The Third Mouth compels us to confront language as a dynamic force—always shifting, incomplete, and ephemeral. The work challenges the viewer to experience communication as both fragmented and whole, underscoring how language shapes meaning through both its material and intangible forms.