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BLIND VISION
Annalaura di Luggo
curated by
Raisa Clavijo
texts
Raisa Clavijo
Paul Laster
Andrea Viliani
Stephen Knudsen
Luigi Caramiello
ARTIUM Publishing, Miami
ISBN 978-0-9960288-2-0
[...] Articulating this dichotomy between body and mind, outward appearance and intimate sphere, di Luggo challenges her method of analysis and the very foundations of her discipline, tackling, in the case of Blind Vision, the gaze of subjects with total or profound visual impairment. Developing
a relationship of exchange and mutual interaction, the artist has favored tactile and oral contact in order to enter into a dimension of experience and behavior that explores the concept of “vision” itself, evoking and sharing its alternative forms. The works thus become metaphors of this reality: multimedia installations immersed in a darkness that is redefined by auditory components and tactile texture expressed in three-dimensionality. The process by which the artist further communicates this epistemology of possible visions is entrusted to synaesthetic resources, in which image, word and sound overlap and, in fact, redefine each other. How to see, what to see-questions that in Blind Vision become synonymous with a more absolute inquiry into the multiple realities of the individual and the multi-verse of our human condition.
Andrea Viliani
Director
MADRE. Museum of Contemporary Art Donna Regina
[...] Blind Vision arises from the artist’s interest in exploring the universe of people who perceive reality with senses other than sight. To achieve this, she made contact with l’Unione Italiana di Ciechi e ipovedenti (Italian Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired) and the Istituto Paolo Colosimo of Naples. Blind Vision constitutes not only a social and artistic investigation of human perception, but it also seeks to reaffirm the value of these individuals as an active part of society. [...]
Raisa Clavijo
[...] Le straordinarie immagini di Annalaura raccontano di una grande bellezza che esiste all’interno di ognuno di noi, al di là di quelle che sono le nostre imperfezioni, rivelandosi sia scientificamente interessanti che esteticamente accattivanti. Rendendo visibile l’invisibile, Annalaura di Luggo ci aiuta a capire meglio che quello che siamo nella vita è è riflesso negli occhi degli altri.. [...]
Paul Laster
[...] BIind Vision attests to this fact, that the human being is more than simply biology. This work speaks to the soul that also seeks homeostasis in a world- a universe - that is sublime, full of other blackness and black holes that crush not only matter, but human imagination which can extend only so far in explaining how and why we are even here with our beautiful eyes, those windows to that soul.. [...]
Stephen Knudsen
