The present article reflects on the possibilities of conceiving a non-human, objectual gaze in the context of the contemplation of art by offering a synthetic evaluation of three of its most prominent theorizations: Jacques Lacan’s (often misapplied) formula of the gaze as an embodiment of the objet a, imprisoned by a work of art; Georges Didi-Huberman’s approach that understands the gaze emitted by what he dubs a ‘critical image’ as en exhortation to the observer to examine their own viewpoint in a dialectical play with this image; and Robert Pfaller’s analysis of the interpassive mechanism in art, crystalized in the idea of a work of art contemplating itself without any involvement of the side of the beholder.Este artículo contempla difer...