Metabolism of images is a long-term work (still in progress) which is part of a deep investigation about the role of mass media visual products and the circle of life of the images.
The inspiration for the work is the concept of meme: "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture" (Dawkins, 1976). From that point, I started to realise how some images I found in the media or in the audio-visual world had something in common or where part of a strange phenomenon of repetition. For exemple, the two images of policial repression in Spain have 30 years of diference in time, but the main posture of the photograph is exactly the same. This work also remains to the work of the art historian Aby Warburg, the Mnemosyne Atlas, and his deep research about the surveivance of the Pathosformel through art history, specially on the Renaissance. My work is also placed on the wall on the same way of Warburg, making a special connection with the thoughs of the professor. |