FOR AN AESTHETIC OF PRESENCE: BODY AND SENSE IN "LIGHTS IN THE CITY" OF ALFREDO JAAR

The purpose of this article, revolves around the relationship that can be established between artistic creation and the aesthetic gesture of the creator. In specific terms the Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar proposed for the city of Montreal, the work lights in the City (1999) as the presentation of an estetica-politica linking in an emblematic architectural space, the installation of the lighting of the work with a marginal body of Canadian society. This gesture of the artist becomes a practice of enunciation as a resource of mediation between the signs of the installation and the Viewer. Such work, is located on the dome of Bonsecours Market. This corresponds to an old building in the city of Montreal that historically suffered repeated simultaneous fires and damage for its architectural helplessness. The interesting thing about this facility is also 100 meters past the monument as such is prolonged. In that space distance are a number of hostelries for all those men of marginality that the Canadian state remains "veiled" in the city. Montreal is one of the most privileged cities of the American capitalist development and one of the most prosperous and beautiful cities of the continent. For Jaar, the choice of location does not mean anywhere but the space there-place, where aesthetics action would be unthinkable as a political gesture. Under a -hermeneutics and explanatory- bibliographic review, linked a series of philosophical and aesthetic that you enable stress classical ways to address a work of these figures, finally appreciating the role of art as a manifestation and sensitive presentation of reality.