Cosmonauts of Inner Space
- BXL

In the group exhibition 'Cosmonauts of Inner Space' in Brussels, I present my philosophical-artistic project 'As human as knowledge' 2018. As an explorer of the world within, I address the philosophical issue of the internal time of consciousness through painting. The internal time of consciousness is one of the deepest analysis in Philosophy. It concerns the way in which our elapsing experience is logically traced by intentionality. This way, I present 2 specific questions in my works; on the one hand, the question about the kind of simultaneity that makes possible that many acts of consciousness work together (The simultaneity of phases, 2018), and, on the other hand, I remark how complex and peculiar the phase of retention is in order to be able to help in grasping an identity whatever (On retention, 2018).

In this picture, I am at the side of the work 'The simultaneity of phases'. In it, I hold the hypothesis that the double intentionality of retention concerns a proper retentional intentionality and a reproductive one, and I figure out the necessary functions that might belong to protention.

In this picture, I am explaining the question mark written on this artwork, 'On retention' (2018). This artwork is about how mysterious and complex retention can be in order to help in grasping an identity.

This way, the artworks I present in Cosmonauts of Inner Space display different levels of understanding: (1) It is the direct presentation of my new philosophical-scientific insights, emphasizing the artistic character that the task of producing knowledge has, (2) it illustrates the lived experience of the pertaining phenomenological reflection that made possible those insights, and (3) it relates the female figure to science in a broad sense, as a way to restore the female archetype.