Posągi i kubły. Inaczej o dostępności kultury wizualnej dla osób z uszkodzeniami wzroku

In its analysis of visual culture accessibility for people with vision loss, this article refers to the basic types of visual impairments while highlighting the diversity of the groups and needs of the blind and visually impaired. Philosophical metaphors of statues and buckets are used to depict the cognitive situation of people with visual impairments. Seeking to capture the theoretical nature of the blind subject, the paper does not devalue their vision loss but shows that their aesthetic experience may be as valuable as that of a person without such impairment. The next section offers an overview of selected cultural events and good artistic practices in terms of visual culture accessibility, with a particular focus on the exhibition Choroba jako źródło sztuki (Illness as a Source of Art), held at the National Museum in Poznań in 2019. The problem of visual impairment in visual culture is discussed from several perspectives: that of a blind observer, a blind artist, and blind society (mind-blindness).