Doble historia de afortunado y mensajero

Abstract

This research-creation aims to investigate the traces of history that images harbor. It is guided by the method designed by Aby Warburg in his Mnemosyne Atlas and continues the conceptual path that goes from Warburg to Georges Didi-Huberman, where the possibility of unraveling all the latencies, anachronisms, and survivals that persist in the image in a spectral way is raised. These are ghosts that the dynamics of contemporary capitalist society strive to silence, preventing us from being able to perceive them. However, there are ways to venture between the different layers that hide them and bring to light the symptoms that every image suffers from. To achieve this objective, this project carries out a series of steps to ensure that this is the case. To achieve this, it starts from a specific space: Plaza de Las Nieves in Bogotá, where a series of recordings are taken, from which a detailed analysis and description of three selected images are made, an exercise that provides a narrative structure, which is subsequently converted into the adaptation of a classic story, in order to reach a wide audience.