This article treats the works of three contemporary artists. In reference to natural phenomena, processes and invisible natural laws all three of them show optical tactility and expose the role of the non-visual, bodily sensory perception of images. The interpretation of nature in the artwork of Carsten Nicolai, Olafur Eliasson and Michel Blazy differ in their formal and conceptual approaches. However, they are all linked by their specific definitions of the bodily (biological, physiological or organic) in relation to perception and its role at constituting conscious and subconscious mental spheres. The optical tactility (Eliasson), the invisible, magic connections between the visible and the audible (Nicolai) and the meaning of the olfactorius dimension or the ambiguous undifferentiating between the animate and inanimate (Blazy) marks a certain Duchampian ‘infraism’ in the subtle study and establishment of an intelligible, sub-sensory dimension of the artwork. These artists operate in the field of invisible sensory-imaginary similitude, in a space of sensory, cerebral and non-material symbolic connections within artworks that create an aesthetic experience withinthe viewer, and broaden their boarders of perception, realisation and consciousness.
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