Christophe CORREIA, Painter

Bernard Stiegler and the Constitution of the Human Through Shared Sensibility Introduction The question “What is art for?” at first appears to call for a simple, almost practical answer: art would serve to decorate the world, to entertain, to move us emotionally, or to transmit messages. Yet as soon as one tries to grasp its real scope, the question resists any utilitarian reduction. It opens instead onto a deeper, almost vertiginous field: that of how human beings constitute themselves through sensory, symbolic, and collective experiences. It is in this perspective that the thought of Bernard Stiegler becomes essential. For him, art cannot be understood as just another cultural object. It is a condition for the very constitution of the human being, as a being capable of sensibility, attention, memory, and projection into time. Thus, the problem can be formulated as follows: if art cannot be reduced to entertainment or social function, in what sense does it participate in the constitution

Since the earliest manifestations of human symbolic activity, humankind has maintained a relationship with the world that extends beyond the mere necessity of inhabiting it. We observe, interpret and transform it; above all, we seek to give it an intelligible form. We inscribe traces of our passage into matter, project our inner representations onto images, and invent languages through which to make perceptible what would otherwise remain unspeakable. In the Chauvet Cave, more than thirty thousand years ago, a human hand was pressed against the wall, leaving behind an imprint of pigment. The precise meaning of this gesture remains unknown, yet it stands among the earliest manifestations of humanity's enduring impulse to produce signs. Was it a ritual act, an assertion of identity, an attempt at communication, or a symbolic way of entering into a relationship with the animal world? We can only formulate hypotheses. Yet beyond its original intention, this imprint bears witness to a fundamental event: human beings

Poetry is not merely a form of literary expression. Above all, it is a way of apprehending, interpreting, and revealing the world. It is a sensitive construction of language, a space in which words cease to be mere instruments of communication and become vehicles for emotions, ideas, images, and meanings. Through its ability to challenge conventional uses of language, poetry opens up new perspectives on our relationship with reality and makes perceptible dimensions of human experience that sometimes elude rational thought. Poetry possesses a singular ability: the power to shift our perspective. It invites us to reconsider what we believe we know, question our perceptions, and establish new correspondences between things. It gives form to inner experiences that are often difficult to articulate, translates the complexity of emotions, and allows individuals to recognise something of their own experience within a singular expression. It thus becomes a space of resonance between the individual and the universal, between the intimacy of consciousness