Estética e teorética das fronteiras do difuso

Abstract

In the visual arts, especially in photography and film, the diffuse (the "flou") in the image is an effect that paradoxically reveals precise control of images. It can be applied to accentuate certain details or imperfections, but, above all, it adds a symbolic and mysterious burden to the image, emphasizing a subjective and particular view that forces us to reflect philosophically and aesthetically. Due to its obvious ambiguity, this effect offers a unique visibility: movement and fixation, shadow and light enter into poetic and aesthetic debate. This disturbing visibility questions a readability of the image which is a hermeneutic operation: what does the diffuse effect tell the observer? Is it a technique, method or poetic and aesthetic reflection that allows a different interpretation of the image? What, then, are the boundaries of diffuse? The author of this article wonders what it means to think of images - be they visual, literary or psychic.