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Francesca Angelini, Instituto IASE–Valencia, SpainAbstract
The eyes, the organ of sight, a portal of exchange between the interior and the exterior. If I see it, then it’s real, it exists, we are used to hearing. But there is something, however, that escapes the gaze. There is something that cannot be seen and yet it manifests its presence every day. The invisible that Klee talks about, the same that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry talks about. It is the shadow the daughter of Butades of Sicyon paints on the wall, the form of a presence that is at the same time absence, the form of a dimension inscribed in mnemonic life. Memory as a matrix where the image is cradled and nourished. Democritus of Abdera gouged out his eyes because he considered them a distraction. Similarly, many artists have tried to “see” the invisible by closing their eyes. Robert Morris, William Anastasi, Claude Heath and many others, including myself, through the blind drawing have carried out this research, giving life to images of the unconscious, giving shape to the shapeless.
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Conference: ECAH2025Stream: Arts - Visual Arts Practices
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Angelini F. (2025) The Abyss of the Gaze: Blind Drawing and the Form of the Invisible ISSN: 2188-1111 – The European Conference on Arts & Humanities 2025: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 83-90) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2188-1111.2025.9
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