Aspects of emptiness in contemporary art - Adriana Honorato - Bog

The aim here is to demonstrate that emptiness, absence, the hollow or the invisible, perceived in contemporary art, are passwords or channels for reflection on the field of immanence. Emptiness in art can be related to an existential void that cuts through the subject and tries to take shape through artistic endeavour. This emptiness can be seen as the primordial lack seen in psychoanalytic theory. What at one moment is a continent, like the void that bathes the world, in the potter's metaphor is contained, embraced - as Romagnolo's hollow sculptures do - they embrace the void, and at another moment it is referenced, indicated - as in Regina Silveira's shadows. In my work, emptiness is the subject and the motif.