The empty mountain: from awakening to dream
Keywords:
subject, psychoanalysis, creativity, extimity
Abstract
This article discusses the project of sculptor Eduardo Chillida to empty a mountain. The choice had fallen on Tindaya, on the island of Fuerteventura (Canary Islands). The notion of “empty”, essential for sculpture from the early twentieth century, is put in connection with the psychoanalytic idea of “extimity” concept capital in the process of constitution of the subject. Chillida, entering the vacuum in the mountain and connecting the interior with the light and the sea, would have led the viewer to experience the intimate exterior as foreign, thus making learning how to live on earth. The project emerged as an awakening of Chillida, returning because the impossibility to realize it to the dream state.Downloads
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Larriera S. (2014). The empty mountain: from awakening to dream. Escritura e Imagen, 10(Especial), 247-261. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ESIM.2014.46931
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