Untitled I | Rodrigo Ramírez

The image wants to appear where truth is established, where communication aims to be effective. It arises as understanding arises and establishes a link with the world that departs from "the real" or from 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 straying is stated. It is a missing statement, something that wants to be present but is not. That absence opens the possibility for disquiet, for desire, and it is precisely there that 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; painting neither. It arises as the world arises, from the material used, be it 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 character as a world does not allow it to be communicable. The spectacle and the power of the image, which make possible the mechanisms of capitalist domination, cease to be effective in the indeterminacy, ambiguity, and non-communication of the poetic.