Non-Objects

A new series of works has the phrase Non-Object in its title. The somewhat bizarre concept of the „non-object“ is best understood by briefly recalling what we mean by the term ″object“: We perceive an object. An object fills space. An object has mass. And with the perception of an object we connect immediately a part of our everyday reality.
A non-object, on the other hand, fills no space, because a non-object has no mass. The Non-Object is only a visual illusion. The eyes pick up a light pattern, its brightness and/or color distribution, and our brain compares this information with stored visual experience, making associations that we perceive as object-like illusions.
The concept of Non-Object goes back to Ferreira Gullar's Theory of the Non-Object: Ferreira Gullar / "Teoriado Nao Objeto". In: Suppleento Dominical, Jonaldo Brasil, 19-20, 1959.