After the Spectacle
Thinking about the meaning of the image today.

The debate will be developed around the question: What is the status of the image today?

We chose this starting point because this is the very focus of “180”, the exhibition by Mabel Palacin on show at S.a.L.E. till October 30. Many artists during the last years concentrated their efforts in questioning the borders between photography and video and the ones between production and consumption. Many are focusing on how technologies are affecting perception and how the possibility of a multiplicity of points of view is constantly growing.

Moreover the theme of the property of an image (which must be approached far beyond the mere juridical sphere) must include the analysis of the common, social and cooperative nature of the process of production today.
The title “After the spectacle” refers to the need of going beyond the Debordian definition in a time in which not only, as Situationists stated, the capital accumulates itself to such a degree that it becomes image, but where images and the so called immaterial domain are often leading the development of our urban and socio-economic landscape.