David Claerbout in Les témoins oculistes, The sense of sight in art

Seeing is often taken for granted as something objective – but it is far more than an unfiltered view of the world. Since 2015, Museum Tinguely has presented an ongoing series of exhibitions exploring the human senses and their representation in the visual arts. After smell (2015), touch (2016), taste (2020) and hearing (2023), Les témoins oculistes focuses attention on the sense of sight. The exhibition creates a dialogue between works from previous centuries and art from the last twenty years. From the Baroque to the present: between art-historical reflection and direct visual experience, experimentation and imagination, around one hundred works over 850 square metres offer different approaches to seeing.