Invisibility and Oscillation: The Processes of Looking in Eszter Salamon’s Nvsbl

The question of the body’s role in the creation of images poses a problem central to visual studies. Eszter Salamon’s 2006 dance Nvsbl displays the complex process of looking at images with singular clarity. This process, here called “oscillating gaze,” features a movement of attention which, in the case of Nvsbl, favors a productive understanding of invisibility, conceived not as the negative limit of vision, but rather as an element capable of fostering unaccustomed ways of seeing.