Beyond the preconceptions of perception

Vinciane Vuilleumier explores the theme of our relationship with images and art spaces. What happens to us when we encounter an aesthetic object? How do we understand this relationship, which has all the makings of a secret idyll when it's sincere? Goodbye, pedantry and museum institutionalism. Welcome to a crazy series that gives new meaning to the title of your magazine, Le Regard Libre.

She held him for seven years - Calypso, she who shelters and makes disappear. She offered him immortality and eternal youth - in vain, Ulysses chose the human condition and the return home. But what else does the visual interpretation of a myth provide? Is it simply a matter of reading the well-known story, the shared cultural reference, on the painted surface? At Basel's Kunstmuseum, Frank Buchser, a 19th-century Swiss painter, depicts Ulysses embracing