objet perdu
ENCOUNTERING ART'S INFINITY
by Mário CaeiroENCOUNTERING ART'S INFINITY
Objet trouvé. In art vernacular this expression evokes unexpected solutions to an artist’s search, a sudden serendipitous manifestation of a more or less unconscious process. Like the trouvaille, which defines the moment in which matter and discourse, artist and public meet in a stasis, inscribing a new situation in the flux of the everyday, the term also presuposes the possibility of art being a process of achamento [stumbling upon]. It may become an argument, eventually a programme, setting out how art emerges, configures and institutes itself. But until what point shall we adhere to an art defined by the iconic image of the objet trouvé? Is there a possibility that a reconsideration of the concept will open up a path for the surpassing of what art is normally considered to be?
