A simulation of a dead cow is being presented, lifelike, but something is missing. It doesn’t quite seem a death,... Read More
A simulation of a dead cow is being presented, lifelike, but something is missing. It doesn’t quite seem a death, but rather an exaggeration of death, death out of scale with life. The cow is an object, but it creates a gap in its constitution. This gap cannot be designated as a void or a chasm but is closer to an absence of sense.
Is it an image, an object, an abject, or a trace? Do we have the capacity to answer these possibilities, or do we state that it is a form of impossibility?
Through her recording of a banal incident with a cockroach, Clarice Lispector questions our desire to tie down and understand reality. She posits that to truly ‘be’ in the world, one must embrace a lack of understanding. Could this implicate an approach of ‘blindness’ to established societal schemas? The systems within her worlds are constantly shifting and transforming as they do so.
Perhaps in light of our (human) shifting worlds and realities, it is prudent to presume that incommensurability is the measure of everything; to view the world as never seen before, in the half-light of understanding, enables us to reconnect with our global community.
