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08 Ott 2025 09:00

Unveiling the Void: Erasure, Latency, Potentiality

Ca' Foscari Zattere, Tesa 1, Fondamenta Zattere, Dorsoduro 1392, 30123, Venezia

8-10 October 2025 | Call for proposals

Organising Committee
Asia Benedetti
Ester Giachetti
Ilaria Grippa
Marta Del Mutolo

The 7th Postgraduate International Conference aims to explore the concept of the relative void and its various manifestations within the visual arts. From the idea of absolute void as a concept beyond human measurement, the conference will address the meanings and possibilities of this notion, as relied on movement and explosion. 

What role can art play in interrogating the void, and how can it open up new readings of history and art histories? What practices and forms fall under its definitional scope across different media? In the plastic arts, the void can be firstly conceived as the blank space situated between the figures: as the non-figurative place within a figurative composition, shaped by the rules of perspective and representation. Yet, from the late eighteenth century, with the rupture of the representational systems, and under the impact of modernist aesthetics and the historical traumas of the twentieth century, the void becomes an active presence. In its intrinsic complexity, the artwork itself can be understood as an object generated from the void, which precedes creation and endures beyond it as a persistent and inescapable presence.

The Conference invites contributions that explore the relative void as a structural condition of its relational nature, tracing its presence across historical periods — from the medieval and early modern eras to contemporary art — and through diverse visual media. 

The 7th Postgraduate International Conference is open to all Ph.D. students.

Deadline for Submissions: May 19th, 2025
Successful applicants will be notified by: May 26th, 2025

For the complete information, please refer to the document attached / infoveniceconference@gmail.com

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L'evento si terrà in inglese

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Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, PhD Programme in the History of Arts

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