I leave this body here: Reflections on the development of understanding based on the postulates of Hans-Georg Gadamer in Natalia Iguiñiz’s artistic research

Abstract

Natalia Iguiñiz’s research methodology for her exhibition I leave this body here serves as a starting point to propose a series of reflections focused on how the phenomenon of understanding develops in the face of artistic experience, and, therefore, how artistic processes produce knowledge. To this end, a parallel is drawn between the visual procedures elicit by Iguiñiz solo show presented in the context of a pandemic and the philosophical postulates of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Both the visual artist and the philosopher can be seen as encouraging us to go beyond the paradoxes and tensions between the subjectivities of artistic research and the doctrines of scientific research.