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Image extrême
Winter 2002
[In French] Dans ce dossier à auteur unique, Paul Ardenne propose une analytique de l’image : définir ce qu’est, au plus près, l’image « extrême »; penser, dans la foulée, le rapport du regard à ce type d’image; enfin, tenter de répondre à la question : pourquoi aspirons-nous, êtres de regard que nous sommes, à la brutalité de l’image « extrême » ?
Editorial
Feature
Current Issue
Water
We now face a global water crisis. Warning signs are flashing everywhere about the increased desertification of the Earth, the industrial pollution of water resources, and the over-exploitation of aquifers. Faced with such a bleak portrait and the fact that environmental and humanitarian challenges are dependent on economic issues and interlinked policies, which are framed by complex laws, the influence of art is relatively modest. Nevertheless, alongside civic actions that we should actively do, artists can give back to water its symbolic and sacred value. Taking a poetical approach to water, the artists and theorists in this issue navigate between aesthetic forms, activist actions, and metaphor-rich analytical thinking. Adopting a resolutely critical perspective, the articles refer to artworks that try to raise awareness about water pollution and climate issues, envisage a restorative justice, and offer new horizons of hope.
Cover: Hannah Rowan
Vessels of Touch, 2021.
Photo: courtesy of the artist & C+N Gallery CANEPANERI, Milan