This paper attempts to display the lacunar and interstitial spatiality of the sensible experience in Merleau-Ponty's later working notes to The visible and the invisible. For that purpose, it discusses some Merleau-Ponty's statements about perceptibility and intersubjectivity where is evoked the intentional life through an analogy to esthetical experience and its savage polissemy. Furthermore, this paper speculates that, although the evidence that the multimodal plasticity revelead by modern art provides renewed support for interpretating sensory experiences - impossible task for rationality -, late Merleau-Ponty's theory seems unable to propose a consistent notion of negativity.
Merleau-Ponty; absence; emptiness; art; intentionality; alterity