{"id":17096,"date":"2025-02-04T12:25:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claudiarudge.com\/texto\/a-metaphysics-of-the-wall-through-the-image\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T11:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:08:52","slug":"a-metaphysics-of-the-wall-through-the-image","status":"publish","type":"texto","link":"https:\/\/www.claudiarudge.com\/en\/texto\/a-metaphysics-of-the-wall-through-the-image\/","title":{"rendered":"threshold, a metaphysics of the wall by the image"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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thresholds
<\/em>work in progress since 2016<\/p>

photography
fine art inkjet print on cotton paper
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” It’s that showing humanity would, on this occasion, be an indignity. A moral failing “
Dominique Baqu\u00e9<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cWhat happens when there is a \u2018wall\u2019 between us?
In this work, I seek to reveal the \u2018walls\u2019 that separate us.
I carry out an extensive photographic documentation of the \u2018walls\u2019 of Paris.
Through technical choices and a pre-established protocol,
the \u2018wall\u2019 is isolated by an extreme frontality and framing.
The images show only large surfaces of \u2018walls\u2019
that eradicate any figure.
Each image is a close-up portrait of a \u2018wall\u2019.
They reveal contemporary chaos \u2014 the movement of exclusion within our society,
the return to feudal conditions in social relations.
The “wall” is the symbol of societies in ruins.
Omnipresent, it imposes itself physically and conceptually on our ordinary lives.
It is a political construction that separates, imprisons,
prevents passage, prevents vision, and hides differences.
\u2018Walls\u2019 articulate physical and metaphysical limits; borders established as forces (dynamis).
In urban space there are walls, partitions, and countless barriers
and obstacles that are also \u2018walls\u2019.
Some are solidly built, others equally solid, despite being internalized.
Whether institutional, social or self-imposed barriers, the \u2018wall\u2019 is the most visible sign.<\/p>

So far, this work has been limited to dealing with the urban context and has only been developed in Paris. (Of course, the reflection goes much further\u2026)<\/p>

Although the pre-established protocol that guarantees the conceptual and aesthetic principles of this research is restrictive, this work already contains a corpus of more than 300 images, organized in the series that structures the visual syntax.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Although the pre-established protocol that guarantees the conceptual and aesthetic
principles of this research is restrictive, this work already contains a corpus of more than 300
images, organized in the series that structures the visual syntax.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Dominique Baqu\u00e9, Pour un nouvel art politique \u2013 de l\u2019art contemporain au documentaire, Paris,
Flammarion, 2004, pp. 187-188<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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