Dorian Vale

To speak of recursion in art is to resist the clean arc of interpretation. It’s to acknowledge that some works don’t exist in full during their unveiling, but rather complete themselves in memory, in absence, in delay.

This document delineates Post-Interpretive Criticism as a new genre: with its own philosophical ground, its own ethical stance, and its own practical consequences for institutions, curators, critics, and the future of art writing.

Post-Interpretive Criticism is not merely a reaction—it is a redirection. Emerging in the wake of exhausted interpretive traditions, this genre identifies a rupture in the relationship between art and language.