Where Nothing Is Yet IX | Rodrigo Ramírez

The image wants to appear where truth is established, where communication aims to be effective. It emerges as understanding emerges, and a connection with the world is established that departs from "the real" or experience. Language fulfills its social function by making the world comprehensible, and the images of a spectacular world. The society of the spectacle turns life, horror, the incomprehensible, and catastrophe into knowledge, into information. In the phrase "the absent image," the gap or void that is established in confusion is enunciated. It is a missing statement, something that wants to be present but is not. That non-being opens the possibility for unease, for desire, and it is precisely where the poetic is established, to try to speak from where there are no resources to speak. The poetic arises before representation, or rather, it represents nothing; neither does painting. It arises as the world arises, from the material used, whether words, surface, matter and color, sound, light, or time. And this materiality of the poetic remains established there in the abyss to which it belongs. From there it tries to emerge, but its world character does not allow it to be communicable. The spectacle and the power of the image that enable capitalism's mechanisms of domination cease to be effective in the indeterminacy, ambiguity, and non-communication of the poetic.