Noir sur blanc : décoloniser le regard

Despite knowing the expression “an innocent gaze” is meaningless, we still catch ourselves in the act of being idealistic. Marc Jimenez remarked that, while we have become relativists in terms of taste, and are therefore conscious of the plurality of cultural systems conditioned by specific historical contexts, we are still prone by distraction, to formulating aesthetic appreciations that call upon “immutable, ahistorical or transhistorical” Platonic beauty. Will we ever be rid of our idealistic gaze?