Room 19

Visual culture developed as a framework of knowledge for the indiscriminate proliferation of images in contemporary society. In contemporary art, the development of critical thinking about images and the study of stereotyping in the language of representation led to the questioning of representation. The photographic medium mimics the human optical apparatus; that is, it is closest to the way the eye sees, a realistic imitation of the world. This relationship to reality makes photography the perfect tool for critically dismantling the clichés of representation, but its critical processes apply to all the artistic disciplines of contemporary art. 

Based on these premises, this room brings together various representations of landscape, a traditional classical genre. And one of the great narratives dismantled by postmodern philosophy is the dichotomy between nature and culture. Using the perspective of irony, art history, historical memory, poetics, or the linguistic literality of tautology, the works shown here are deconstructions of the notion of nature and place within representation.