Open AccessThe Problem of Representing Trauma and the Role of Art in Witnessing Unspeakable Experience
Author(s) -
E.N. Dremova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
hudožestvennaâ kulʹtura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2226-0072
DOI - 10.51678/2226-0072-2021-3-220-241
Subject(s) - transitive relation , representation (politics) , affect (linguistics) , meaning (existential) , point (geometry) , psychology , art , visual arts , aesthetics , psychoanalysis , psychotherapist , communication , political science , mathematics , geometry , combinatorics , politics , law
The article discusses approaches to the problem of traumatic experience and its representation, describes the discussions in trauma studies related to unpresentable and evidence, and the problems of the photographic image. The article reviews the theory of affect in connection with the analysis of the art of trauma. The author examines the meaning of dialogue and comes to the conclusion that art can become a place where it is possible to hear the voice of a wound, to share the pain of Another. The author analyzes the transitive role of art in the experience of the past on the example of conceptual artists — Doris Salcedo and Alfredo Jaar. Alfredo Jaar’s installations, which include documentary photographs, are analyzed from the point of view of the concept of punctum and correlate with the idea of affect.