Pasado, presente y futuro. Reflexionar-hacer desde el archivo

Abstract

Especially from the nineties of the twentieth century, working around the paradigm of the archive has acquired special relevance in the art world. The interest in this line of work, for those who are involved in it, is based on a need to reread the images in a nonlinear, non-hierarchical way, within processes of knowledge involved in generating new possible readings, new relationships.

This text goes through a very particular group of maniestations that have in common the use of the paradigm of the archive as a starting point, as a space for an inquiry about the present time. It is about the artistic proposals developed by Catarina Simão, Maria Ruido, Sahatsa Jauregui and Elssie Ansareo. 

All of them, having understood the importance of their necessary impact on the future, assume the collection and/or rereading of images themselves as a strategy.