"Shut your eyes and see"

© Rui J G Ramos, 2022

​"Shut your eyes and see" is the title of the text by Nuno Crespo published in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition Rui Chafes: Arring Without Leave (Serralves, 2022). Crespo's text takes up Didi-Huberman's words, which in turn reflect Joyce's words [Ulysses] in the book Ce que nous voyons, ce qui nous regarde (Les Éditions de Minuit, 1992):​
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"We must close our eyes to see when the act of seeing takes us to an open void which stares back at us, which concerns us and which, in a certain sense, constitutes us."
 
Georges Didi-Huberman, What We See, What See Us, 1992 (not translated into English)