Dora García / Contes choisis

"Like many other artists, I used to believe in an analogy between art and science. This would allow me to eliminate despised 'artistic' attitudes by defining the activity of art as a tool for obtaining knowledge. Later I realized, to my dismay, that this analogy was no help at all in choosing a standpoint on the making of art. When I did finally arrive at such a standpoint, the analogy was revealed as patently false. Both concepts, science and art, produce images. The images of science seem to be concerned with comprehending a frenetic passing of time. Art images, on the other hand, seem to be an earnest attempt to stop or to freeze that frenzy. I have very little patience with the fashionable artistic jargon about the 'continuous flow' of images. That 'flow' has not helped us understand the characteristic of an image that gives it a singular, unique, necessary presence. That could be an interesting subject for investigation: the state of wonder, or awe, that an image is capable of producing, outlining a little space of time above another time, real, undetermined, chaotic, not understandable, humorless." Dora García