Outstanding! To encounter the performance Procession Banners (2018)[1] by Lucy Orta is to face the “sovereign image”.[2] This work leads the viewer beyond the sense of the conventional, as it draws attention to the written words. We can use Lacan’s registers – the symbolic, imaginary and real – to aid our understanding of this work [...]
Art and Fiction Kan Yasuda’s 'The secret of the Sky' In Short Surprise! To encounter the work of art The secret of the sky (1996) by Kan Yasuda, means to face “the sovereign image”[1] in Naoshima Island ![2] Beyond the phenomenology of perception, the visitor is invited to fall upon the significantised element. Freud and Lacan [...]
Can wearing the veil be broached only from the point of view of the duality of the all-powerful man and the submissive and demeaned woman?1 Who can decide whether veiling a woman’s body is to prevent someone looking at it, desiring it, or if it is to neutralize this gaze, the one that in return [...]
