[Im]probable Images

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2024 - on going

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​"The strategy does not consist in reducing the number of images

but in opposing them with another mode of reduction,

introducing images that force other ways of seeing."
—Andrea Soto Calderón

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​​We have been told of the end of the world so many times that it is not difficult to share the suspicion of Chilean philosopher Andrea Soto Calderón that we are living through an era of the shuttering of imagination, and with it, the slow cancellation of the future—or rather, a persistent distrust not only in its loss but also in the idea that the future could be something better. Paradoxically, while it could be said that we live in a time when the capacity to produce images has never been so massive, one of the consequences of this shuttering is not an excess of images per se but rather an excess in the production of the same images. For instance, we could say that when we visit the world, we no longer wish to discover it. Instead, we constantly seek a repetition of the information previously obtained from that experience. This repetition of information is what Vilém Flusser refers to as probable images. Thus, if we already know the probables, the question becomes how to expand the possibles.​​

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​​​​​​​​​​​​This project is part of my master's thesis titled Three Contingent Routes from Imagination and Fiction as Methods to Create (Im)probable Images. Jean-Luc Nancy suggests that the concept of "contingent" relates to the idea of what is "accidental" or "possible", as opposed to what is necessary or essential. In this sense, I explore contingency as the notion that things and/or images are not predetermined by an absolute cause or principle but are instead the result of specific circumstances, open to multiple possibilities.

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Project in progress with the support of the Department of Art at Universidad Iberoamericana (Master's Program in Art Studies) and the National Council for Humanities, Science, and Technology (CONAHCYT).​