It is often said that an image is the image of something, which implies a certain relationship with the referent, the real world. What is the nature of this relationship? Modern arts, with photography first and foremost, have modified this relationship both in practice and in theory.

Today, all image criticism oscillates between an excessive confidence in this relationship (for example, when Barthes considers photography from the phenomenological angle of "this-has-been") and an excessive suspicion of the consequences of its manipulation (for example, when in a photograph we see nothing but an illusion, a lie produced by the society of the spectacle).

We will therefore approach the reflection from a more dialectical, more nuanced perspective, to find the points of contact that the image, however free and imaginative it may be, can establish with reality.

Directed by Georges Didi-Huberman

PROGRAM
03.04.07
When images touch reality
Georges Didi-Huberman

10.04.07
September 11, 2001: The Icon Factory
Clement Cheroux

17.04.07
When editing touches reality: Basilio Martín Patino
Aurora Fernández Polanco

24.04.07
Hymn and hypnosis. Images by Kandinsky
Javier Arnaldo

08.05.07
Sleep, the reality of dreams
Dominique Païni

16.05.07
Anxiety and Image. Seminar X (Lacan)
Jorge Alemán

22.05.07
A matter of skins
Juan José Lahuerta

29.05.07
An unusual form of contact
Angel Gonzalez Garcia

Hours: 19.30 hours

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