An Atlas of Imagination

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Montage is the art that is capable of making the image dialectic.

Assembling images as I do in my work does not mean assimilating them to fit them into a logical narrative plot, but juxtaposing single fragments, conserving their multiplicity, partiality and impurities to make their combination or repetition generate an interference with or a reaction to my imagination, opening up new possible relationships and knowledge.

The images are not sufficient on their own, they are always juxtaposed or, more precisely, collided with short phrases taken from the books of the time, words to read in order to amplify the effect of the image, not to assert a truth but to trigger a visual moment of awareness. It is only through this dialectic restitution that the image can take on a new legibility.

The image becomes the center of a thought about time. In a certain sense it is the attempt to construct an atlas of one’s own imagination, whose reference point is Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas, but with the difference that the images juxtaposed in this Atlas have first been manipulated and personalized through an operation of assimilation.

Exhibition
AA[n+1]
96, rue de Cléry – 75002 Paris

Vernissage Thursday 25 February 2016, 19.00
Open to the public from Friday 26 February to Thursday 31 March 2016

Info
Open Tues-Sat /11am – 7pm
contact@aan1.net
contact.aan1@gmail.com

Author
Luca Galofaro is an architect and educator.

Associated Professor at University of Camerino from 2016, visiting professor at Confluence in Lyon 2015, at the Bartlett school of Architecture in 2013 and at Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris from 2007 to 2013. He obtained the Master degree on Spatial Science at the International Space University, UHA.

His research around architecture is made not just by architectural projects (is the founder member of Ian+ (1997-2015) and LGSMA (2016) but through different research tools: two blogs www.the-booklist.com and www.the-imagelist.com, a new phisical space, gallery Campo in Rome, and a new indipendent magazine Divisare that will be published on april 2016.