>"Tense Object: On the Blind Spot and Freedom of Method in ArtNatalya SerkovaJune, 2021One of the questions that perhaps worries people directly involved in the production of art more than outsiders  to the process is whether art can bring its author closer to freedom. Does art hold emancipatory power? And if so, from what exactly can it emancipate? Does it promise emancipation of the spirit? Can it reveal the hidden, lifting those involved to the heights of an enlightened knowing mind? Or reveal falsehood, forever freeing the initiated from its destructive influence? Does art lead its most devoted adherents out of the prison of tunnel vision?