Zoom into: exploring looking through image and audiovisual language and its possibilities for intervention with children and adolescents from art therapy and art

Abstract

In art therapy and art, as working through photography and audiovisual language, look is positioned as a building identity element that generates a new possible narration concerning the “self”, in which a person, author of his own process of changing, is able to recognize himself, giving himself a different place and value from “the already told” and “already known” about himself along his live story; that takes place in a structured setting which offers him the containment and safety for the emotional deployment which intervention is articulated from. These are artistic languages as well that make paths able for being walked along, form individual to others, and going back, letting people to take care about themselves through artistic work and creating process. They are artistic languages where children and teenagers can be, feel, show, offer, understand, find them out, look each other and where people are looked for others.