Physicist feminist Karen Barad says: "objectivity is a matter of responsibility and not a matter of distancing". 
(From: an interview with Karen Barad in “Meeting Utrecht Halfway” June 6, 2009, the 7th European Feminist Research Conference, hosted by the Graduate Gender Programme of Utrecht University). 

In maternal subjectivity distance matters. Being close to life's beginning, indeed, being enmeshed with the materials and materiality of life at its origins opens up the possibility to knowledge. It is knowledge that emerges and being constructed by a dialogue with materials, bodies, cultures and histories; a dialogue that challenges social conventions. At the 'heart' of this way of knowledge there is responsibility. Knowing how to respond and develop this ability. In Barad's words 'respons-ability'. 

According to Barad: 
'There is not this knowing from a distance. Instead of there being a separation of subject and object, there is an entanglement of subject and object, which is called the “phenomenon.” Objectivity, instead of being about offering an undistorted mirror image of the world, is about accountability to marks on bodies, and responsibility to the entanglements of which we are a part.' 

'A painting's seeing itself', oil on canvas, 2017 (below) is shown as an object hanging on the wall and as moving images, filmed at different stages and from different view points, seen on screen/s. This wide way of looking at a painting creates a space of entanglement where many different issues can be explored as part of thinking about painting: what is it? and what does it signify today?