De la perception de la forme : pour une phénoménologie de l'espace dans les oeuvres de Daniele del Giudice, Peter Handke et Jean-Philippe Toussaint

During the Renaissance, Alberti’s concept of total visibility and, more specifically, the rediscovery of perspective as artificial instrument of space construction led to a representation of spatiality created ‘in the Image of Man’ . Since then, our understanding of the subject’s perception changed, both in function and in nature as a consequence of a progressive antropogenetic deconstruction. By focusing on the works of Daniele del Giudice, Peter Handke and Jean-Philippe Toussaint from the 1980s onwards, my research aims to study the causality between the modification of perception in arts and its impact on the subject. My comparative exploration of these authors questions perspective perception as a non-dualistic subject-object matter from a conceptual, epistemological, ideological and ontological common ground. The respective visual strategy of each author thus shows this phenomenological mutation of perception to both in its relation to the perceiving subject and the perceived object, and therefore, through its space and time relation. By shifting the question of the subject from an ontological to a phenomenological point of view, the authors intend to reeducate the subject’s gaze through which space and time are perceived as a continuum. In order to create a sense of spatial belonging, it is thus necessary to break free from the concepts of historical time and perspective.