Una Fiesta Extraña y Bárbara (Parte I) |
A Strange and Barbarous Party (Part I)
2015
Galería Macchina PUC, Santiago (2015)

In his recent essay “Can Photographs Lie?”,[1] Martin Jay points out that the digital revolution in photography that began around 1990 gave a new topicality to the old question about the relationship between photography and “truth”. The extension of the technical conditions for producing altered or doctored visual records of all kinds that this revolution brought, and the ability to circulate this material widely through virtual networks, have created suspicion about how much store can now be set on what is seen in processed images. Which images tell the truth and which lies about the now individualized and dismembered history of humanity? Do images contain a real history and a falsified one?

[1] Unpublished lecture delivered as part of the Image Studies MA course, Department of Art, Alberto Hurtado University, 12/11/2015.