ÉIDŌLA

Êidos, image in Greek, comes from the same root as the verb idêin, (“to see”), from which idéa (“that which is seen”). Eidetic images are mental projections that are so vivid and detailed in their sometimes bright colours that they are almost perceptive. A characteristic phenomenon in children and adolescents, it gradually diminishes in adulthood, where it is rare. Eideticism persists in subjects who tend to be intensely visionary, including, first and foremost, artists, who remain in perpetual connection with the lost language of childhood and the world at its beginnings, the world of the ‘primitives’. Éidōla, idols, in Latin idola, simulacra…

ÉIDŌLA: omaggio a Claude Lèvi-Strauss

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