The ubiquity of the image

I am, of course, in overall agreement with Radu’s remarks. But I am less optimistic than him, which is not to say that I’ve given up… All the more so because I have always tried to wage this kind of ‘guerrilla warfare’ against the dominant imagery, clichés and stereotypes.

The fact that at Libération between 1981 and 1986 we atypically published artists as diverse as Raymond Depardon and Sophie Calle, that we have thrown into crisis the modality of the portrait or fashion imagery, has gained us readers. The fact that the Agence VU and its gallery have for twenty years now disseminated, published, exhibited and circulates unconventional points of view is a contribution to this resistance to the standard and dominant flow, as is the publication in the current issue of the Italian weekly Internazionale of a portfolio of work by the Indian artist Dayanita Singh.

But I have never been convinced by the Trotskyist strategy of entryism (actually, I was more Maoist…), an illusion that was tragically terminated with a an ice pick.

Given that we have no real means of acting on or intervening in the dominant vectors of the image, which are controlled by ever greater and more concentrated financial powers, it seems to me that we are condemned to remain a minority.

Maybe we ought to accept this, keep on resisting and, most importantly, continue to call for training, for education in how to read and understand images. In order for there to be fewer visual illiterates.

Etiquetes: education, resistance

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