La imagen dentro de sí. Sobre tres obras de Oscar Muñoz

• Main Author: Paola Cortes Rocca
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte 2015-12-01
• Series: Caiana: Revista de Historia del Arte y Cultura Visual
• Subjects: visual studies; remains; contemporary latin american photography; temporality; video
• Online Access: http://caiana.caia.org.ar/template/caiana.php?pag=articles/article_2.php&obj=204&vol=7

Oscar Muñoz's work revolves around the question of the specificity of photography. By doing so, it redirects a current trend of visual studies that are fascinated with the non-specificity of the objects and the itinerancy of languages. Muñoz wonders what lies at the heart of photography. Is it the mechanical reproduction or the ability to chemically fix the image? Is it the power to isolate the instant or to perpetuate anything captured by the machine? The transformation that introduces photography has less to do with the work itself and more with the experience of image. That experience is, first of all, an experience of time since the image produces an intermediate time between proliferation and what is left as a remain.