An Atlas of Imagination

By Luca Galofaro, Damdi Publishing Company, 2016.

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Georges Didi Huberman wrote the Atlas is not only a collection of images, but a ‘form of visual knowledge’ and an infinite archive which gains meaning through the concept of montage.

Didi Huberman does never refer to a single image but to them as a complex collection of fragments. To him, similarly to Aby Warburg, it becomes essential how images are organized among themselves and also how a different combination of possibilities stimulates different paths of reading.

Montage is the art that is able to make the image dialectic. Assembling images as I do in my work doesn’t mean assimilating them to fit into a logical narrative plot, but juxtaposing single fragments, storing their multiplicity, partiality and impurities to make their combination or repetition generate an interference with or a reaction to my imagination, opening to new possible relationships and knowledge.