\nAt the same time, her intervention in the Cathedral is an exercise in figuration which revolves around the prophetic, and a kind of abstraction of the ritual of the Sybil\u2019s chant. The Latin verb abstraho designates the act of separating, of removing, of taking out any thing or person from another, in short of focussing on a relationship with the powers of absence. Death is \u201cabstract\u201d because it \u2018ab-stracts\u2019 and diffracts figures, because it imposes on beings and even on objects impossible, contradictory dimensions, because it works to make everything dissimilar. We must remember that the Cumaean Sybil showed Aeneas the path to \u201cthe kingdom of the dead\u201d. The \u201cneules\u201d made by Marta Blasco shine and at the same time produce shadows, imposing a visuality which allegorises levitation and also evokes the end, the reduction of the Sybil\u2019s own body to a handful of sand.<\/p>\n
It is not easy to deal with the iconography of the Sybil without falling into clich\u00e9s; with a huge dose of subtlety, Marta Blasco puts forward an ambience for that prophetic figure which reinforces a female presence, but which also signals or manages loss. Between things epiphanic and eschatology, in a dimension that is \u201csuspended\u201d but not lacking in drama as a result, the installations of the \u201cneules<\/em>\u201d in Mallorca Cathedral works as a dream space, an \u201cunknown sign\u201d which emerges from a structure of obsession. This intervention transmits a certain amount of \u201cdisturbing oddness\u201d, that is to say, it is reminiscent of a familiar ritual, but it materialises different components, expanding and giving new life to a tradition that is as much a presence as it is a chant.<\/p>\nA tradition connects the mythologies of ancient times and Christianity, indicating that the Tiburtine Sybil had prophesied the birth of Christ to the emperor Augustus. In the Middle Ages the Sybils were represented as part of the symbolism of the messianism of Jesus, and in the 13th century, the Erythraean Sybil appears in the Dies Irae<\/em> of Thomas of Celano, announcing the end of the world. Marta Blasco revisits sybilline iconography<\/p>\nto travel through realism<\/em> towards a more intense symbolic dimension; her \u201cneules<\/em>\u201d for Mallorca Cathedral are presences \u2013 forgive the paradox \u2013 which refer to a certain absence. Being, we may point out from a Freudian perspective, is never something one earns, but something which, perpetually failing the call, is circled around (it even acquires the status of an obsession in pursuit of figurability) and does not allow us to touch more than remains. In the final verses of the \u201cParadiso\u201d of Dante\u2019s Divine Comedy<\/em>, the Sybil appears in an intermingling of vision and dream, memory and decomposition of what it was into remains: \u201cThenceforth, what I saw \/ Was not for words to speak, nor memory\u2019s self \/ To stand against such outrage on her skill. \/ As one, who from a dream awaken\u2019d, straight, \/ All he hath seen forgets; yet still retains \/ Impression of the feeling in his dream; \/ E\u2019en such am I: for all the vision dies, \/ As \u2018twere, away; and yet the sense of sweet, \/That sprang from it, strill trickles in my heart. \/ Thus, in the sun-thaw is the snow unseal\u2019d; \/ Thus in the winds on flitting leaves was lost \/ The Sybil\u2019s sentence.\u201d<\/p>\nFor Lacan the real is what \u201cpermits the effective unknotting of what makes the symptom hold together, namely a knot of signifiers.\u201d In her \u201cneules<\/em>\u201d, Marta Blasco suspends a symbolic condensation; in these beautiful pieces she deposits the fascination she felt when she heard the Chant of the Sybil – in a way she exorcises emotional collapse with artistic forms in \u201clevitation\u201d. The \u201cmourning of the inexplicable\u201d named by Mallarm\u00e9 may push us to flight, or by contrast make us circle around the worst: a way of being at a distance, but also a way of facing that which causes us anguish. Marta Blasco\u2019s aesthetic task is that of carrying on looking, in the visible, at that which the visible always continues to hide, carrying on, like Georges Braque, \u201ctrying to salvage something from the immense gaping darkness that surrounds [things], that eats into them on all sides\u201d. Al jorn del judici<\/em>, in that finale which the Sybil sings, all eagerness comes to an end and the historic fate is fulfilled: with the sword the female figure does not cut down hopes, but fulfils the promise.<\/p>\nAll mourning labour is a labour of place, and all spacialisation brings with it conflict, but also temporality, the \u201cbecoming-time of space\u201d.
\nMundane expectations find in the Chant of the Sybil a moment of tears but also a sweet call to divinity: \u201cVenits a mi los amichs meus \/ de tots perils<\/em>\u201d. Marta Blasco\u2019s installation in Mallorca Cathedral has the nature of a \u201cdialectic image\u201d, in which she takes up tradition and ritual again in order to offer an unequivocally contemporary crystallization: \u201cIt\u2019s not,\u201d said Benjamin, \u201cthat what is past casts its light on what is present, or what is present its light on the past; rather, image is that wherein what has been comes together in a flash with the now to form a constellation. In other words, image is dialectics at a standstill. For a while the relation of the present to the past is a purely temporal, continuous one, the relation of what-has-been to the now is dialectical: is not progression but image, suddenly emergent. Only dialectical images are genuine images (that is, not archaic)\u201d. Every authentic image is constituted as a \u201cdialectic at a standstill\u201d, at once crystal and sparkling movement of the crystal. The \u201cneules<\/em>\u201d created by Marta Blasco are as much a symptom as an element of fracture: they descend from the roof of the Cathedral to generate a \u201cdevotional space\u201d or, in other words, they elevate their subtle materiality to make hope visible. From the Sybils painted by Michelangelo in the Vatican\u2019s Sistine Chapel to the \u201cneules<\/em>\u201d hung in Mallorca Cathedral just before Christmas, they all propagate a prophecy which reminds us that the end may be the most beautiful of beginnings.<\/p>\nII. Installed in rootlessness (artistically speaking).<\/strong><\/p>\nMark Greif points out that nearly all of us experience a simple dissatisfaction. The idea that any moment could be added to experience, but that by contrast, it is lost in time, leaves a permanent residue of loss. We discover that ultimately, all situations abandon us, and we lacked the will to take them far enough when we still could. Our tattered culture corresponds to a being that is frontier, the imprecise limit on which, according to Mallarm\u00e9, the dice should be thrown: the truth shines out in the symbolic. The proposals of the first German idealism system, its claim to a symbolic mythology, reverberate like a memory that persists during a shipwreck. Eugenio Tr\u00edas asserts that, at present, great art and great philosophy can only be produced in the midst of a pertinent crossing of the desert, where beyond the mirages, an unsuspected space is announced. In this way, a kind of microphysics of art is laid out; in this sense all arts are oriented towards their limit ,with the express will of transcending it: \u201cGreat art,\u201d says Tr\u00edas in his L\u00f3gica del l\u00edmite<\/em> [\u201cLogic of the Limit\u201d], exhibits its immanent contradiction: without nostalgia it rises up to the sacred, at the same time as it expresses illustrated tendency linked to the radical clarification of its ambience or domain. When this exhibition of the insoluble contradiction occurs, then art fulfils the double demand of adapting to the historical time (modernity in autumn) and of rising up to the limit (of the sacred and the secret)\u201d.<\/p>\nIt is by no means easy to return to Earth<\/em>. We must come to terms with the conflict of the artwork, that is to say, to the relationship between<\/em> world and Earth. We must learn from how things grow in nature and come to decide what the right moment<\/em> is. Perhaps chronology and meteorology speak of none other than a mixture<\/em>, i.e. of the kairos<\/em>, that which is opportune. The light that makes things visible imposes the time of nature<\/em>: there the cut and the continuity, that which is static and that which is fluid, are joined. The song of existence is an intense, hazardous dwelling in the open, or in other words, an attempt to reach the origin of the origin, the aion. In Rilke\u2019s Duino Elegies<\/em> the beloved land requires metamorphosis: a becoming invisible in the heart. In the last instance, all the harm we do to the Earth is wounds we inflict on ourselves. If, with the appearance of the Holy Grail in Lohengrin<\/em> it seemed, in the words of Baudelaire, as though the world had \u201cdisappeared\u201d, all this implies is that the Earth, the inexhaustible deposit of meaning, retracts so that we can continue to aspire to finding its mystery (an endless task).<\/p>\nIt is the artwork, as occurs with the imposing installation Marta Blasco has produced in Mallorca Cathedral, that allows the Earth to be Earth, instead of world. Uncovering<\/em> is that which is inherent in the truth (aletheia<\/em>). In the middle of the being in its totality, an open place is presented: there is a clearing. In Art and Space<\/em> Heidegger stated that emptiness is not nothing; it is also not a deficiency, on the contrary, it is that play in which places merge: \u201cSpace brings that which is free, that which is open to establish itself and a dwelling of man\u201d. There is a liberation of places, an installation of the truth which is, strictly speaking, a spacing<\/em>. In different abstract artists, the idea appears that it is necessary to reach the first energy from which forms emerge, absence as a kind of narration<\/em>, remembering the mystic sentiment of the void, in which the experience of solitude becomes positive: moments in which one can perceive the echo, the emergence of energy and images. In her visions of the Sybil, Marta Blasco has clarified that the relationship both with the earth and with that which is feminine is crucial, in a symbolic knot which poses a revelation<\/em>.<\/p>\nLet us remember that the modern experience of rootlessness appears, singularly, both in Benjamin and in Heidegger: the aesthetic experience is shown as an estrangement which demands a labour of reconstitution and readaptation. That said, this labour does not seek to reach an ultimate state of completed reconstitution; on the contrary, the aesthetic experience is oriented towards keeping rootlessness alive<\/em>. In 1935 Heidegger pointed out that the beginning is the most terrifying and the most violent: this is unheimlichkeit<\/em>, a not-being-in-one\u2019s-own-original-home. And yet, we are accommodated in the inhospitable<\/em>, something which does not necessarily mean that we have accepted anguish. The tremendous (Das Ungeheure<\/em>) which terrifies us, the sacred which is imposed, cannot dissolve into the air as though it were ultimately nothing. Marta Blasco takes up the mythical figure of the Sybil again to re-inscribe it in the religous-symbolic context, but at the same time, she delves into her own imagination in order to release the condition of disturbing strangeness.<\/p>\n\u201cLike rococo,\u201d writes Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego, \u201cthe installation is genuinely a salon art, but also, in general, it is a deconstructing art which modifies the interior structure of places, reducing or enlarging the size of rooms and their components, bestowing maximal importance on the contextual elements (furnishings, belongings, ornaments, transitional places, limits, openings, projective propositions, gaps and other inscriptions)\u201d. Let us remember Perniola\u2019s idea of the installation as the space that feels the visitor, welcomes him, touches him, feels him up, \u201cstretches out to him,\u201d he indicates in The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic<\/em>, \u201cmakes him enter into it, penetrates him, possesses him, overwhelms him. One does not go to exhibitions to see and enjoy art, but to be seen and enjoyed by art\u201d. A space or, resorting to theatrical terms, a stage<\/em> on which the ideology of virtual interactivity is dismantled by the interpassivity of that which is an incontestable presence. By no means does Marta Blasco\u2019s installation have mannerist features \u2013 on the contrary, its aesthetics tend to show the essential: the figure of the woman engraved on metal sheets which literally levitate, offering flashes of that sybilline figure. In an age in which non-places proliferate, when the permanente mobilisation of tourism finds the souvenir as its only reward, Marta Blasco regales an \u201cepiphany\u201d of intense, poetic potency, she bewitches us with her appeal to the \u201coracular\u201d, she manages to make us lift our gaze, to confront us with images I dare to describe as inspiring<\/em>.<\/p>\nArtaud, in his Lettre sur le langage<\/em> (1931), said that alongside culture through words, there is culture through gestures. There are other languages in the world besides our Western language, which opted for a lack of ornamentation and a dessication of ideas, and where ideas are presented to us in an inert state. The subject of the subconscious is located on the body, is expressed in the specific, in an evocation of the radical other, that is, in an incitation for the public to move beyond perplexity and introduce its effects of meaning where, above all, it is offered a dissemination of naked objects<\/em>.<\/p>\nDerrida sustains that only because there is no presence is the experience, amongst other things, of artwork possible. Whilst some artistic practices have recovered the body<\/em>, they have not necessarily done so in order to reclaim a \u201cphysicality\u201d but in order to allegorize multiple dispossessions on its basis. That is to say, dislocation<\/em> also affects that corporeality that we consider a refuge of \u201ccertainty\u201d: \u201cwhat I call the body,\u201d writes Jacques Derrida, \u201cis not a presence. The body is \u2013 how might I put it \u2013 an experience in the most mobile (voyageur<\/em>) sense of the word. It is an experience of context, of dissociation, of dislocations.\u201d As Michaux indicated, the artist resists the drive to not leave any trace, leaving the materials in a territorial situation similar to a crime scene; the trace is that which indicates and is not erased, that which is never definitively present. In an age in which we have \u2013 perhaps all too calmly \u2013 accepted what Derrida calls destinerrance<\/em>, as opposed to the ideology of the virtualisation of the \u201cworld\u201d, numerous veiled situations appear, traces of the different, indications that drive us to a creative drift: \u201cWe leave traces\u201d, says Baudrillard, \u201ceverywhere \u2013 viruses, lapses, germs, catastrophes \u2013 signs of defect, or imperfection, which are like our species\u2019 signature in the heart of an artificial world\u201d. Art may be not only an obsession, but also a viral<\/em> process, something that destructures ostensibly \u201cnormal\u201d communication. Marta Blasco produces something more than traces, she imposes forms that remember<\/em> the Sybil and, in one way, rest on her apocalyptic \u201cchant\u201d.<\/p>\nThe sybilline voice indicates the inevitable fate, it sings the events of the end, perhaps it materialises the hinge of the finitude with the longing for significance. We must understand the drive of death as an ontological derailing, a gesture of dis-investiture that refers to the dissolution of the libido: that which dislocates the subject (in the process of its constitution) is the traumatic encounter with enjoyment. The self, spectacularly constituted, believes that around it there is only a terrain full of rubble and, precisely because of this, it fortifies<\/em> itself; seeing oneself as a unitary subject implies a form of visual repression. Whilst desire always leads to the impossibility of its satisfaction, drive finds its satisfaction in the very movement designed to repress that satisfaction: \u201cwhile the subject of desire is grounded in the constitutive lack<\/em> (it exists in so far as it is in search of the missing Object-Cause), the subject of drive,\u201d writes Zizek, \u201cis grounded in a constitutive surplus<\/em> \u2013 that is to say, in the excessive presence of some Thing that is inherently \u2018impossible\u2019 and should not be here, in our present reality: the Thing which, of course, is ultimately the subject itself<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\nAccording to Lacan, what the subject finds in the (specularly) altered image of his body is the paradigm of all forms of resemblance that will bring over on to the world of objects a tinge of hostility, by projecting on them the manifestation of the narcissistic image, which, from the pleasure derived from the meeting himself in the mirror, becomes when confronting his fellow man an outlet for the most intimate aggressivity. At times, we are fixated not so much on the reflection, as on a transitional object<\/em>: \u201cthe shred of blanket or beloved shard which,\u201d says Lacan, \u201cthe child\u2019s lips or hands never stop touching\u201d. We revisit the idea that detachment and castration intervene in the emergence of the subject. Castration means that pleasure needs to be rejected in order to be attained on the inverted scale of the Law of Desire. The Sybil\u2019s sword that Marta Blasco has instistently drawn, or materialised on a beautiful window, metaphorically generates a symbolic cut at the same time as it gives an account of this creator\u2019s courage and determination.
\nHer dream of creating the installation in Mallorca Cathedral has been something of a heroic commitment.<\/p>\nFreud said that, after being interpreted fully, all dreams show themselves to be the fulfilment of a desire, that is, dreams are the hallucinatory realisation of an unconscious desire. The dream traps us and leads us to the abyss<\/em> of the sublime-vastness, of tenderness, of the frayed memory of the womb<\/em>. Here a profound truth<\/em> is found; Plato himself built his defence of the experience of the dream<\/em> to fend off the prejudice that one must \u201cfree oneself from appearances\u201d. At the end of the day, dreaming means \u201cnot knowing what is happening to me\u201d. Certainly, there is a knot or labyrinthine structure that separates us from a clear visi\u00f3n of what we have dreamed; as Freud indicated, the navel of dreams is the unknown, something that is beyond the reticulation of the intellectual world. Art establishes a pleasurable delay<\/em>, is a summons to a singular intensity of life. We must keep our minds open to everything, be capable of establishing, in Freudian terms, a constant \u201cfree association\u201d, i.e. work in the direction of a radical excitation of the dream<\/em>. Like rain, phantoms and the rarest of bonds fall in the region of dreams. Marta Blasco has drawn knotted pieces of fabric, she has also made ceramic roses, beautiful garlands that enter into dialogue with the ripped body of Venus. Her dream of the Sybil has not ended yet; it is pleasurably delayed.<\/p>\nIII. To (miraculously) cross fantasy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cJenny Holzer\u2019s famous truism \u2018Protect me from what I want\u2019 expresses very precisely,\u201d says Slavoj Zizek, \u201cthe fundamental ambiguity involved in the fact that desire is always the desire of the Other. It can be read either as \u2018Protect me from the excessive self-destructive desire in me that I myself am not able to dominate\u2019 \u2013 that is, as an ironic reference to the standard male chauvinist wisdom that a woman, left to herself, gets caught up in self-destructive fury, so that she must be protected from herself by benevolent male domination. In more radical terms, the expression indicates the fact that in today\u2019s patriarchal society woman\u2019s desire is radically alienated, that she desires to be desired, and so on. In this case, \u2018Protect me from what I want\u2019 means \u2018What I want is already imposed on me by the patriarchal socio-symbolic order that tells me what to desire, so the first condition of my liberation is that I break up the vicious cycle of my alienated desire and learn to formulate my desire in an autonomous way. The problem of course, is that this second reading implies a rather naive opposition between \u2018heteronomous\u2019 alienated desire and truly autonomous desire. What if desire as such is \u2018desire of the Other\u2019, so that there is ultimately no way to break out of the hysterical deadlock of \u2018I demand of you to refuse what I demand of you, because that is not it<\/em>?\u201d The protection is possibly that of the desire itself<\/em>, an awareness of the abysmal, in other words, those turbulences of passion in which every foundation is lost. But the paradoxical enunciation may also have to do with the dynamics of seduction, with saying that it is folded up and does not offer unified meaning. It does not appear to be an appeal to another located in a hierarchical position, but rather a plea that seeks to reach the problematic place of the subject<\/em>: a movement that is not repression, but rather strange veiling. As in catharsis, rejection and repulsion are combined with fascination for the extreme, here, protection<\/em> can be the moment before an unconditioned submission<\/em> to the release that is so difficult to reach.<\/p>\nFoucault circulated the idea that man<\/em> is an invention of recent date, based on which the archaeology of our thought can be conducted. If the retreat of language has the result that \u201cthese days one can only think of the emptiness the disappeared man has left behind\u201d, it is also obvious that the possibility of rethinking<\/em> the conditions of production of the subject is opening up, the microphysical network in which knowledge, desire and reality twist together. Perhaps the greatest problem is that life as we knew it has ceased to exist, but nobody is capable yet of assimilating what has survived in its place. Only by recovering the space he first vacated, can man, a misfortune (dystychia<\/em>) more than an enigma, attain what he improperly calls totality; desire and imagination exceed the limitations, they strive to be outside of the law, inventing that other side of life<\/em>. A symbolic combat is unleashed to overcome that love which turns the other into a specular reflection, or an obstacle that can be reduced, inhumanely<\/em>, to nothing, undesirable remains to be thrown into a nameless tomb.<\/p>\nWithout doubt, all of Marta Blasco\u2019s work is associated to the modulation of desire<\/em>, configurating itself as a rigorous art of the care of the self based on a strangeness of the body<\/em>, something similar to what Lacan called extimit\u00e9 (extimacy), a complex process in which we relate profoundly to the Thing. It seems clear that the positions of the \u201cmasculine\u201d and the \u201cfeminine\u201d which Freud defines as the effects of laborious and uncertain accomplishment in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality <\/em>(1905) are established in part through prohibitions which demand the loss<\/em> of certain sexual attachments, and demand as well that those losses not be avowed, and not be grieved. Gender is constituted as a ritualised repetition of convention; in this sense femininity is an ideal that is always only imitated, but also like that melancholic ambivalence (a conflict which tenses what we tend to call ego to the point of taking it to the abomination of itself), that return of the libido to its starting point (Zur\u00fcckziehung<\/em>), but above all the situation in which an originally external object, or an ideal, is lost, at the same time as a refusal to break the bond appears. For Freud, responses of the melancholic still proceed from a mental constellation of revolt, which has then, by a certain process, passed over. The revolt that has been crushed in the melancholia can be salvaged to challenge the ideality of authority.<\/p>\nThat barred subject Lacan spoke of brings to us the desire that can be opened up based on indeterminacy, undecidability or even destinerrance<\/em>. \u201cConsequently,\u201d writes Derrida, \u201cI believe that, like death, undecidability, which I also call \u201cdestinerrance\u201d, the possibility of a gesture never reaching its destination, is the condition of the movement of desire which would otherwise die ahead of time\u201d. Desire, as I perceive it in the aesthetics of Marta Blasco, is a mixture of enjoyment and dissatisfaction that cannot be resolved in the form of an \u201cessential absence\u201d; perhaps the abandonment of different suffering<\/em> has something to do with our abdication of ourselves and, naturally, with the difficulty of establishing the encounter with the other. Lyotard spoke of the post-modern formula, in a troublesome imagination, like leaving a response suspended, without excluding the possibility of there being something of Other, \u201csomething of lack and something of desire\u201d.<\/p>\n\u201cThere are three bodies,\u201d he warns in The Cyberworld, the Politics of the Worst<\/em>, \u201cthat are indisputably linked: the territorial body, that is, that of the planet and the ecology, the social body, and finally, the animal or human body. From this comes the need to reposition oneself in relation to the body, to reposition the body in relation to the other \u2013 the question of the fellow and of otherness \u2013 but also in relation to the Earth, that is to say, to the world itself. There is no own body without our own world, without situation. One\u2019s own body is situated in relation to the other, the wife, the friend, the enemy\u201d. Perhaps Butler is right when she points out that the body is not a site in which destruction takes place, but a destruction on the occasion of which a subject is formed. \u201cThe formation of this subject is at once the framing,\u201d she states in The Psychic Life of Power<\/em>, \u201csurbordination and regulation of the body, and the mode in which that destruction is preserved (in the sense of sustained and embalmed) innormalization\u201d. Remember the oracular sentences proffered in Delphi, of \u201cknow thyself\u201d and \u201cnothing to excess\u201d, in a way antagonistic, as penetrating what we are may lead us to delirium and our disturbing, ephemeral condition drives us not so much towards restraint as towards pride, that is, the demented challenging of the gods. Through the iconography of the Sybil, Marta Blasco speaks of the generating power of women and of their exaggeration precisely at the moment of self-awareness.<\/p>\nSubjectivity can only be affirmed as the distancing with regard to its foundation, which can never be fully overcome. The free subject, integrated into the symbolic network of mutual recognition, is the result of a process in which traumatic cuts, repressions and power struggles intervene, that is to say, it is not primordially established. There is a resistance to identity<\/em> within mental life; identity can never be summed up by the symbolic, because what the latter does not manage to order will emerge within the imagination as disorder, as a place for challenging identity. We must put an end to the permanent location of the woman in the paradox<\/em> and, naturally, to her denigration, and her reduction to nothing<\/em>. Marta Blasco literally works her fingers to the bone in her work (those torn bodies are not only allegorical) and in the Mallorca Cathedral installation she gives way to women<\/em> with her ability to see what is happening, that is, with her oracular presence.<\/p>\nAfter the questioning of the subject <\/em>(even after it has been dismantled and its rhetorical structure revealed), the importance of positioning is maintained. The individual is by now no more than the residue of the community\u2019s experience of dissolution. The concern for what happens to us, the ontology of the present, can lead us towards committed practice and thinking<\/em>. \u201cUndoubtedly the most infallible philosophical problem is that of the present time,\u201d says Michel Foucault, \u201cof what we are at this precise moment. Without doubt the main objective nowadays is not to discover what we are, but to reject what we are\u201d.<\/p>\nEverything that can be transmitted in the symbolic exchange is always something that is both absence and presence. It serves to have that kind of fundamental alternation which, after appearing at a point, makes it disappear only to reappear at a different point: it circulates, leaving behind it the sign of absence in the place it comes from. The artwork is understood as a function of the veil, set up as an imaginary capture and place of desire, the relationship with the beyond, fundamental in any structuring of the symbolic relationship: \u201cIt is,\u201d<\/p>\n
says Lacan, \u201ca matter here of the incursion upon the imaginary plane of the ternary rhythm subject-object beyond, which is fundamental to the symbolic relation. In other words, within the function of the veil<\/em> it is a matter of the projection of the intermediary position of the object\u201d. The contradiction lies in the veil, in the duplicity<\/em> of the functioning of the vei. The difference that veils and unveils is, to a large extent, a fold. Marta Blasco\u2019s \u201csybilline\u201d materialisations are (re)veiling, they offer images that are suspended, moving, light and at the same time, serious, which situate us in an enigmatic domain (it is worth saying: one steeped in metaphors).<\/p>\nWe need to be clear that if we were to tear our veil (an image with both a religious and an erotic impact), it would not be something like the truth that would appear. The Real is not a \u201ctrue reality\u201d behind virtual simulation, but the same void that makes reality incomplete\/inconsistent, and the function of all symbolic wombs consists of concealing this inconsistency; one of the ways to achieve this concealment is precisely to pretend that behind the incomplete\/inconstant reality we know there is another<\/em> reality which is not structured around an impossibility. It is not the moment of the disappearance of veils, or of the theatrical raising of the curtain, but that of the acceptance of the screen. One must try, as Marta Blasco does, to cross (traverser<\/em>) fantasy, knowing that meaning, as Levi-Strauss or Lacan showed, is probably no more than a superficial effect<\/em>, a mirage, foam. The symptomatic reading denounces the illusion of essence, depth or completeness to the benefit of the reality of the cutback, the rupture or the maturing. Art is always trying to acquire the \u201cother scene\u201d, i.e. that place in which the significant exercises its role in the production of the significances that remain unconquered by the subject, and from which the latter demonstrates it is separated by a barrier of resistance. It is the fall of the subject which is supposed to know<\/em> what opposes the notion of liquidation of the transfer.<\/p>\nArt, produced masterfully in the way Marta Blasco does it, can thwart what the symptom imposes, that is, the truth. In the structuring of the symptom with the symbol, there is no more than a false hole. Language is connected to something that perforates that which is real. And, to avoid dissolving, we (barred\/subjects) need to knot<\/em> the experience, if only with a half-saying. The real is to be found, says Lacan, in the tangle of the true. The real is always a fragment, a bud around which thought weaves stories; the stigma of the real is not to entwine with anything. Between the fierce passion and the speechless sentiment, we could get the impression that everything dissolves in meaningless. Even the vision of divinity is, paradoxically, face to face \u201cper speculum\u201d. Because God may be no other than the definitive veil. \u201cThe truly traumatic thing,\u201d says Zizek, \u201cis that miracles \u2013 not in the religious sense but in the sense of free acts \u2013 do happen, but it\u2019s very difficult to come to terms with them\u201d. The (Lacanian) Real does in fact take place, and is actually the impossible. Another issue is whether we can symbolise or accept the Real. A thing that does not happen<\/em>. In spite of everything, we cannot give ourselves over to the poetry of failure, or to the trick of absence. We have exhausted the sacrileges and, at the same time, disconcerting relics have proliferated. Following the voice and the presence of the Sybil, we need to return to the (maternal and secret) Earth where the decisive wants to become invisible.<\/p>\nFernando Castro Fl\u00f3rez<\/span>
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