Cámara oscura: sensibilidades expuestas

Abstract

This work seeks to evidence other ways of building images and thus depart from the established within the field of photography. And it is for this reason that it investigates how the image is constructed from a non-visual reference, that is, from blindness or visual impairment. The purpose is to understand the internal process that allows a person with this condition to obtain an image from their capacities or perceptive tools. In the development of the research, it is found that there is a lack of artistic or entertainment proposals that involve the blind population in an active way in cultural, social, and educational spaces; that enable them to experiment and recognize from their own sensitive tools. As a consequence, an artistic experience is created that favors the exploration of those other forms in which an image is constructed from the multisensory. This process is the result of sharing with a group of adolescents with visual impairment with whom we worked around the concept of laboratory. A space for exploration and interaction around joint searches, through artistic languages as a primary element for experimentation around concepts typical of photography. In accordance, multisensoriality is linked from the thought of Cassey (2019), evidencing that "sensory interactions make possible new forms of perceptive consciousness" (p. 25). This, recognizing, as Flusser (2011) says, that the image is a surface to which meaning is given. In relation to this, it is necessary to point out that images are created in visual impairment, which originate from experience, just like any knowledge that is acquired; in turn, they are not visual, and are called "mental images". Finally, it is reaffirmed that human development is a common good that implies a global interest and not a particular one that must be managed from the inclusion of difference and diversity. Appealing to that human condition that is "the need for the other, the recognition of that other, sharing interiority, sensitivity, and sympathy for the other" (Pie and Solé, 2011, p. 11).