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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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abstract

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 viewer, both texts employ paraesthetic articulations of the gaze to redress the imbalance inherent in our conception of vision.

Published
Dec. 22, 2023
Accepted
Oct. 30, 2023
Submitted
Sept. 17, 2023
Language
EN
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-771-5

Keywords: GazePortrait de la jeune fille en fewPortrait de la jeune fille en feuVisual cultureAutotheoryOptic NerveVisual CultureNew FormalismParaestheticsCrossmapping

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