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Clínic Summer School: An image is worth more than a thousand words?



Monday 30, June, 2025 16 h - Monday 30, June, 2025
Espais Volart, Barcelona




Does the image translate reality (without explaining the context)? Is it necessary to recover narrative as a source of knowledge or as a complement to the image?

With the participation of the photographer Joan Fontcuberta.

 

‘Diseases: from the body to the image’.

It sets out to explore how medical diagnostic images and images generally not only represent the body, but can also metaphorically have a biology of their own. If images act as symbolic substitutes for reality, we can ask ourselves whether they can also ‘fall ill’ or transform, just like the body they represent. The session proposes a reflection on the metabolism of images: how they are born, change and, in certain contexts, degrade or become pathological. We will analyse artistic projects that open an interdisciplinary debate between medicine, philosophy and visual semiotics.

Joan Fontcuberta is an artist, critic, teacher and exhibition curator. Among the awards he has received, the Hasselblad photography prize 2013 stands out. The hallmark of his artistic and theoretical work is doubt, uncertainty, playing with appearances and reality to question the truth of the image. His work is present in national and international collections such as the MoMA in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the MACBA and the Fundación Vila Casas, among others.

Coordination: Bernat Puigdollers and Joan Escarrabill

 

Date: Monday 30 June, from 16 to 19 h

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