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Starting from M.Merleau-Ponty's "eye and spirit" as a phenomenology of visual and aesthetic perception and focusing on colour as a concept, we shift to the "gaze" and the unconscious. This shift arises through the logic of the new works and the way in which Eleni Gatsiou emphatically "scans" her chromatic gesture. Colour in a painting is transformed into a concept that encompasses both its visible and the unseen Being. That is, it encompasses all that sensory reality reveals through the eye as well as all the imaginative (derived from imagination) and …