Statement for the final show opening

During the one month residency, I developed poetical images, comparing a shop and its window, to an eye. The installation shows my interests in the psychological, phenomenological and scientific aspects of vision. The physical particularities of the shop (one window and door on the street, the other ones on the covered market) came as a great inspiration and are completely part of the work.


“There is a human body when, between the seeing and the seen, between touching and the touched, one eye and the other, between hand and hand, a blending of some sort takes place – when the spark is lit between sensing and sensible (…)”

MERLEAU-PONTY Maurice, "Eye and Mind" in The Primary of Perception, Northwestern University Press, 1964

"One common fallacy is to assume there is an image inside your eyeball, the optical image, exciting photoreceptors on your retina and then that image is transmitted faithfully along a cable called the optic nerve and displayed on a screen called the visual cortex. Now this is obviously a logical fallacy because if you have a screen and an image displayed on a screen in the brain, then you need another little chap in there watching that image, and there is no little chap in your head. And if you think about it, that wouldn't solve the problem either because then you'd need another little guy in his head looking at the image in his brain and so on and so forth, and you get an endless regress of eyes and images and little people without really solving the problem of perception. So the first thing you have to do to understand perception is to get rid of the idea of images in the brain and think instead of transforms or symbolic representations of objects and events in the external world.”

Synapses and the Self - Lecture by V.S. Ramachandran - BBC 4 - 2003