Atlas trashumante – analogías internas

Abstract

In Greek mythology, Atlas was a titan condemned by Zeus to take to heaven (Uranus) on his shoulders. Later, in the s. XVI, Atlas was named a set of cartographic maps that contained information on economy, society, politics, religion and other details of each region. Didi-Huberman who takes up the research "Atlas Mnemosyne" by Aby Warburg and takes it to an exhibition called How to take the world on its shoulders?, where it intrinsically refers to the allegorical symbol of the Atlas as a container of the world. This project addresses two concepts with which this project is built, on the one hand, the concept of Atlas Mnemosyne, this is the name that the historian Aby Warburg gave to his proposal of anthropological and artistic research that was based on reconstructing the memory of European civilization by means of several images of different epochs and place them together to confront them and generate new universes according to the combination, confrontation and dialogue. On the other hand, it uses the concept of transhumance and symbolically resizes this phenomenon and alludes to human wanderings as a social symptom. This project proposes the production of a visual exhibition that gives a version of power, politics and the result in society through the concept of biopolitics. Thus, it is proposed to construct a visual archive of images constructed by means of painting and other traditional and contemporary media; a project integrated by images of diverse technique, context and nature, are transformed into metaphors and symbols of power.