GEORGES ROUSSE

FIRST OF ALL, CONGRATULATION TO YOU PAULA FOR YOUR EXHIBITION IN ZURICH!

THE WEEK HAS PASSED QUITE QUICKLY, BUT I HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT SOME PHILOSOPHER AND ARTISTS ABOUT THE LANGUAGE OF THE IMAGES IN RELATION TO THE "TRUTH" OF REALITY.

I FOUND AMAZING THE CHAPTER 3 "RHETORIC", WHERE AT PAGE 34 DERRIDA SAYS THAT "THERE IS NOT ONE SINGLE HISTORY...BUT RATHER HISTORIES".

BASED ON HIS THEORY THAT REALITY IS ALWAYS AN EFFECT OF HOW IT IS REPRESENTED, INTERPRETED AND DISTORTED, HE ALSO SAYS THAT "WE NEED TO INTERPRET INTERPRETATIONS MORE THAN TO INTERPRET THINGS".

HE QUESTIONS THE PRINCIPLE OF MIMESIS, THEREFORE THERE IS NOT A REALITY PRESENTED TO US VIA LANGUAGEW OR IMAGES, IT CAN ONLY BE A REPRESENTATION!!!!!!!!!!

AT THIS POINT I AM GETTING VERY EXCITED. MY WHOLE RESEARCH AND QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT IS REAL START TAKING SHAPE.

I FOUND A VERY INTERESTING CHAPTER ON A BOOK CALLED PHILOSOPHY OF THE ARTS, BY GORDON GRAHAM. THE CHAPTER IS CALLED IMMAGINATION AND EXPERIENCE pg62.

HE TALKS ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MAP AND A PHOTO...WHICH ONE IS REAL? THE PHOTO CAN BE MORE UNREAL THAN THE MAP, AS A MATTER OF FACT IT CAN NOT TAKE YOU IN A GIVEN POINT, IT IS AN ITERPRETATION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER. THE MAP, BEING GRAPHIC AND NOWHERE NEAR TO THE VISUAL WAY OF PERCEPTION OF THE "REAL" PLACE, IS STILL ABLE TO TAKE YOU "THERE".

BUT APART FROM QUESTIONING THE NATURE OF THE PHOTOGRAPH, I HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT OTHER POSSIBILITIES OF THE MEDIUM... NOT ONLY LIES, BUT ALSO THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME FORM OF METACOMMUNICATION OR EVEN SPIRITUAL MESSAGE BEYOND THE VISIBLE...

HEGEL FOR EXAMPLE SAYS GREAT THINGS ABOUT THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE ARTS...

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