Telling, Silence and Listening: Philosophical Audio Guide

A philosophical audio guide to Paloma Polo’s exhibition The Return of the Gaze: The Political Task of Narration. This event invites us to listen from where we narrate. From the place we inhabit, the body that remembers, the gaze that opens or becomes exhausted, acknowledging that all telling arises from a position, a wound or a desire. From there, listening becomes a form of care and resistance. Listening beyond the ear, listening as someone who touches, as someone who allows themselves to be affected by other frequencies. There are voices that do not inhabit hegemonic telling, but rather its broken margins. Listening to them is not an act of generosity, but a form of dispossession: allowing one’s own voice to crack so that the inaudible can resonate.