Works by Giulia Flavia Baczynski, Alessandro Calabrese, Paolo Ciregia, Giorgio Di Noto, Irene Fenara, Simone Monsi, Maurizio Montagna, Caterina Morigi, Alberto Sinigaglia, Lamberto Teotino, The Cool Couple, Alba Zari.

Does the image inevitably exhibit a metaphorical quality, as Blumenberg suggests, linked to the awareness of a crisis in philosophy’s claims to knowledge and universality? Is the image a seductive medium in the service of illusionism? Is the material image a simulation of a higher and more complex form circulating in the universe, which can only be intercepted by more sensitive and receptive minds? Or are there no images of a superior order, with everyone equally able to access the democratic field of visual possibilities?

But if we consider the material image as a simulation, is it therefore something other than the image it seeks to embody, and at best only a distant reference to something within a universal image? Or, if its identification or projection is unsuccessful, might what it shows be only an incomplete or partial figuration, or even a simulacrum?