Sleepless Nights

Resumo

In Nuits Blanches, the artist Pauline Le Pichon illustrates the disturbing scenarios that prevent her from sleeping at night. Narratives so unsettling and with such a realistic aspect that they become suffocating for the author. The proposal was submitted to the “Living Fiction” dossier of Rotura – Journal of Communication, Culture, and Arts (Center for Research in Arts and Communication, 2024) as a visual body responding to one of the challenges of the call: to de-automatize the gaze, with the proposal of exploring the relationship between fiction and life. If, in the gasp of a sleepless night, the voice fails and words no longer communicate, the image – a set of them – materializes the resistance to create as an artistic process and as a rebellion of life against what seems empty and absorbed. This visual essay offers, through the experience of the artist Pauline Le Pichon, the possibility to continue unraveling ‘nuits blanches’ and the force of life that also inhabits chaos (the origin of creation, according to Aristotle), as a matter of art and the sharing of possible films, through the experience of the image delivered to the eyes of others, of which this visual essay is an example.