Ninth International Conference on The Image

Abstract

Can a photograph decipher of a theory or evoke the traces of the past? Or does it repress them to a present moment? Can it lure the subject into a new reading of space where knowledge escapes belief? The research paper will attempt to answer these questions through the extrapolation Emmanuel Levinas theory of alterity using a ficto-critical analogy. The amalgamation of the theory with the eccentric fictive methodology aim to unravel not of the contingent in-between moments rather the other unpredicted possibilities – to construct a discourse of difference. It is through the gaze of alterity that the effect of time unravels the various faciality of spatiality. Yet could a still gaze unravel of invisible existent scenarios to narrate of a spatial alterity across other dimensionality? The face in its gaze is a construct of incremental frames. Images are visual representations to the power of certain invisible faciality. The influence of visuality opens the discourse of an absent presence embedded in its spatial folds. Could the discourse of spatial openness disturb the still moment to untie of other scenarios? This paper will decipher these themes of visual spatiality through one case study in Beirut city to transcribe its architecture alterity.