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17 September 2019. "It is quite normal for someone like me, engaged in self-dialogue, to be looking for lost images on the walls."
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Who is to speak for the sense of sight?
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17 September 2019. We have asked some prisoners, which countries, walls, and cultures separate, to talk -from Bertrand Gaudillère’s images- about their perception of sight.
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