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The Object Looks Back: Paraesthetic Vision in Portrait de la jeune fille en feu and Optic Nerve

Mansi Tiwari    University of Zurich, Switzerland    

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Focusing on Céline Sciamma’s film, Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019), and Maria Gaínza’s novel, Optic Nerve (2014), I turn to two texts interested in the structure of vision to interrogate gendered dynamics of power. By formalizing alternate relations between subjects and objects, the portrait offers a space to negotiate the unidirectional and subordinating logic of the seeing subject. Focusing on interventions that interrupt and collapse the positions of the viewer and the viewed, both texts employ paraesthetic articulations of the gaze to redress the imbalance inherent in our conception of vision.

Pubblicato
22 Dicembre 2023
Accettato
30 Ottobre 2023
Presentato
17 Settembre 2023
Lingua
EN
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-771-5

Keywords: Visual Culture • Crossmapping • Gaze • Visual culture • Paraesthetics • Optic Nerve • New Formalism • Portrait de la jeune fille en feu • Portrait de la jeune fille en few • Autotheory

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-771-5/015

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