Not Meanings but Intentions – The Work Before Sense
Maybe we’ve overestimated the importance of meaning. Or rather: we’ve overestimated its necessity. Contemporary narrative,whether aimed at a broad audience or a niche one, too often moves within a space where everyone seems to search for a semantic harbor, a safe landing, as if every work were required to say something, and say it well, […]
The Economy of Absence: Scarcity and Value in Contemporary Art
We live immersed in an unprecedented proliferation of images. Every day, millions of representations crowd our devices, dissolving the boundaries between seeing and consuming, between presence and reproduction. Never before in the history of visual culture has access to images been so immediate, so free, so omnipresent. And yet, never before has the value of […]
The Illusion of Thinking: On the Comfort of Stereotypes
In the past two episodes of The Illusion of Thinking, we explored how art, much like artificial intelligence, learns to simulate depth and to fear failure. In both cases, what appears to be thought is often a refined form of aesthetic survival: a strategic adaptation to context rather than a genuine act of understanding. But […]
