Unpacking the picture, observing ourselves
eastcontemporary•Jun 25, 2024 — Aug 31, 2024
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Lacan tells an anecdote that takes on from an episode in his early twenties on a boat in the Brittany Sea with local fishermen. It regards a small sardines can floating in the waves, glittering under the sun, and Petit-Jean, this young fisherman accompanying Lacan in this venture, pointing out the distant object in the waves and saying: You see that can? Do you see it? Well, it doesn’t see you.
It is there that Lacan’s reflection on the reciprocity of the seen and the seer takes a turning point, paving the way for a deeper inspection of the power of objects and images of returning the gaze, exerting an agency that escapes our control –– or the sheer visions of geometrical perspective. Just like what happens in Emilia Kina’s practice, that seems to operate an evasion from this abstract way of seeing in as much as linear perspective. If I can see something, that something can see me. This is the premise from which we can start deconstructing our subjectivity.…
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Unpacking the picture, observing ourselves
eastcontemporary•Jun 25, 2024 — Aug 31, 2024
Press Release
Lacan tells an anecdote that takes on from an episode in his early twenties on a boat in the Brittany Sea with local fishermen. It regards a small sardines can floating in the waves, glittering under the sun, and Petit-Jean, this young fisherman accompanying Lacan in this venture, pointing out the distant object in the waves and saying: You see that can? Do you see it? Well, it doesn’t see you.
It is there that Lacan’s reflection on the reciprocity of the seen and the seer takes a turning point, paving the way for a deeper inspection of the power of objects and images of returning the gaze, exerting an agency that escapes our control –– or the sheer visions of geometrical perspective. Just like what happens in Emilia Kina’s practice, that seems to operate an evasion from this abstract way of seeing in as much as linear perspective. If I can see something, that something can see me. This is the premise from which we can start deconstructing our subjectivity.…
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