harriak: “itzuli barik”

In a recent cultural meeting, a philosopher suggested an interesting definition of the figure of the mediator. He compared it to the literary tradition of courtly love, and said that, while the courtier linguistically elaborates the idea of love, the mediator creates a linguistic elaboration of conflict.

Some time ago, I heard a friend say that there is a kind of incomprehension in art that is precisely what captures our attention and draws us to it. He said that he goes to look at Las Meninas again and again, because there is something in that picture that always escapes him, something that he cannot quite understand.

This idea that what we cannot understand attracts us creates a powerful image. And the attempt to verbally elaborate what cannot be said can also be a suggestive idea.

Something is always lost in translation, and yet we want to know everything.