Between the Retina and the Celestial Dome: Challenging the scaffolding of spatial imagination
Penelope Haralambidou
Abstract:Taking as a starting point French artist Marcel Duchamp’s preoccupation with a poetic portrayal of stereoscopic vision and the red and blue expansion of depth in the technique of the anaglyph, Between the Retina and the Celestial Dome playfully challenges the disciplinary constraints and conventions of spatial thinking. The text takes the form of shorter or lengthier annotations on a twin ‘essayist drawing’ that exists in two versions: a hand-drawn gilding on parchment and a digital film. It proposes that our … Show more
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