Imagen escena

The image is never merely an entity that configures a scene of appearance. Therefore, we are interested in introducing a reflection on what the notion of scene contributes to the understanding of images, in their capacity to explore their potentialities and disrupt a certain order. We aim to invent new devices that dismantle the flows that obstruct our imaginary world. In this session, we propose to reflect on the capacities that images can articulate beyond discourses on their saturation.

Photo: Frame from Apparition, 3', Ismaïl Bahri, France, 2019 – Courtesy of the artist

By Adnen Jdey and Andrea Soto Calderón

Adnen Jdey is an FNRS research fellow and a member of the Centre for Phenomenological Studies at the Catholic University of Louvain. He is a professor of film history at the Higher Institute of Humanities and Languages in Tunis. For years, he has been working on the registers of Contemporary Western Philosophy and Aesthetics. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Archi-Cinema Theory: Deconstruction and Film (Paris, 2019); The Method of the Scene. Conversation with Jacques Rancière (Paris, 2018); Politiques de l’image (Brussels, 2014); Gilles Deleuze, la logique du sensible (2016, Brussels); Les styles de Deleuze. Esthétique et philosophie (2011), Derrida et la question de l'art: Déconstrucions de l'estéthique (2011 Paris). He is an art critic for Nawaat.org.

Andrea Soto Calderón holds a PhD in Philosophy and teaches Aesthetics and Art Theory. She has carried out her research in Valparaíso, Barcelona, Lisbon and Paris. In addition to her teaching activity, she is carrying out an artistic research project on the functioning of images at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, in Barcelona. He has written several academic articles, book chapters and texts for artist catalogues. His publications include the book Le travail des images together with Jacques Rancière (2019), La performatividad de las imágenes (2020), Imaginación material (2022) and Imágenes que resisten. La genealogía como método crítico (2023).

Language: spanish and french with simultaneous translation into catalan