Georges Didi-Huberman, preview from L'Atelier, ici et ailleurs, 2023.
This text was published in Castilian for the exhibition En el taller del filósofo, curated by Lucía Montes at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid (February-May 2024).
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Georges Didi-Huberman, preview from L'Atelier, ici et ailleurs, 2023.
This text was published in Castilian for the exhibition En el taller del filósofo, curated by Lucía Montes at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid (February-May 2024).
Nell’anima razionale le immagini sono presenti al posto delle sensazioni, e quando essa afferma o nega il bene o il male, lo evita o lo persegue. Perciò l’anima non pensa mai senza un’immagine.
Aristotele
Il sostegno costituito per voi dai vostri sensi, il sostegno costituito per i vostri sensi dal mondo, il sostegno costituito per voi dalla vostra impressione generale di essere. Vengono meno. Si opera un’ampia ridistribuzione della sensibilità, che rende tutto bizzaro: una complessa, continua ridistribuzione della sensibilità. Sentite di meno qui, e di più là. Dove “qui”? Dove “là”? In decine di “qui”, in decine di “là” che prima ignoravate, che non sapreste riconoscere. Zone oscure ch’erano chiare. Zone leggere che erano pesanti. Non fate più capo a voi stessi; e la realtà, gli oggetti anche, perdendo consistenza e durezza, cessano d’opporre una seria resistenza all’onnipresente mobilità trasformatrice.
Henri Michaux
Solo gli occhi sono ancora capaci di gettare un grido.
René Char
Georges Didi-Huberman, Quando le immagini prendono posizione
French art historian Georges Didi-Huberman has enigmatically declared that "Montage is the art of producing this form that thinks." What does it mean for an image to think? The fundamental principles of montage, such as juxtaposition and shock are well known. Perhaps, however, there is another way to speak of montage, when it is deployed as a mode of knowledge. By claiming that images are capable of thinking, this essay argues that Didi-Huberman is taking up Gilles Deleuze’s proposal that cinema does not merely imitate or reflect philosophy, but produces its own philosophical project. For Deleuze, the challenge facing philosophy was to overcome the assumptions concerning what thinking is, a return to a ground zero of what representation can possibly be. Didi-Huberman’s arguments signal an alternative way of treating images beyond what Deleuze calls "representation," or thought based on resemblance, recognition and identity. To do this, Didi-Huberman retrieves montage from the historical avant-garde and explores its epistemological potential. By emphasising montage’s capacity to create new meaning and generate new lines of thought, images become theoretical objects, things that "think."
Georges Didi-Huberman, ‘Index of the Absent Wound’.
To remember, one must imagine
Didi-Huberman, Images in Spite of All, 2012
“alleggerite le corde, c’è un colpo di vento”
“Ma osservare significa accedere al processo a monte del risultato, vuol dire aprire l’ involucro visibile. E dunque aprire i corpi.”
The historian is, in every sense of the word, only the fictor, which is to say the modeler, the artisan, the author, the inventor of whatever past he offers us.
Georges Didi-Huberman, Confronting Images
Dans l’acte d’amour se mêlent haleines vivantes. Dans le moment de la perte, notre haleine se retrouve seule, ne sait plus faire signe à quiconque. Dans le deuil et la hantise, notre halaine tout à coup, rencontre un courant d’air; le souffle de l’absence, la respiration du lieu lui-même. Le fantôme.
Georges Didi-Huberman, Génie du non-lieu, 2001.