Abstract
"In Pascal Quignard's words, "In man, the only thing that weighs is the irrassasiable eye. How does one look at an image with the horizon of work in mind? Looking is already painting, and there are so many ways of looking at images nowadays that collecting them is a new way of putting the world at a distance. The challenge is to better describe it by focusing on fragments, since the world is discontinuous.
Damien Cadio will talk about the atlas as a singular yet concrete object of everyday studio life, as a place for daydreaming about future exhibitions and the ideal, fantasized painting. He will also talk about how the act of painting constitutes the fragile, risky, adventurous moment of the painting's eventual existence, i.e., what in the practice of painting resists projects, language, control and power.
