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 HEDI SLIMANE Looking at Hedi Slimane’s work through Roland Barthes’ idea of the Text helps me see fashion and photography in a new way. Slimane’s photos and designs are not meant to give one clear meaning. Instead, they are full of signs, feelings, and cultural references that the viewer must explore. Barthes says a Text is something we move through, not something we just understand once and for all. Slimane’s black-and-white style, focus on youth and music, and lack of direct explanation make his work open to many different meanings. His art is like a space where ideas cross over each other, creating a mix of feelings and thoughts. This makes each person’s experience of his work personal and different. Understanding this helped me see that art does not always need to explain itself. Sometimes, its power comes from letting the viewer find their own meaning. Slideshow Slimane presentation package

 Roland Barthes writes, “To play is to make music, to listen is to hear it as meaningful, and between these, there is a third space—the music’s own erotic.” (p152). This idea helps me rethink the dynamics between sound, image, and audience in my experimental film, particularly the scene where two mute individuals converse in sign language without subtitles. Instead of guiding interpretation with words, I want the film to invite the audience into a sensory experience where understanding arises through gesture and musical atmosphere—where listening becomes tactile. The private side of the project includes scripting, sound design, editing, and working alone in the studio with music fragments and silent footage. But once shown, it becomes public: performed as a film and interpreted by viewers, each bringing their own listening to it. The absence of subtitles challenges traditional viewing and creates space for what Barthes calls a “tangible intelligibility”, a moment where meaning is ...