Description du projet
Un regard plus approfondi sur la puissance visuelle
Capables de persuasion et d’immersion, les images jouent un rôle essentiel dans la formation des perceptions. Toutefois, leur pouvoir peut souvent éclipser l’instabilité, l’ambiguïté et l’autoréflexivité qui leur sont inhérentes. Dans cette optique, le projet FRAGILE IMAGES, financé par le CER, entend explorer la nature délicate des images, en particulier de l’imagerie romaine du IIe siècle avant Jésus-Christ au IVe siècle après Jésus-Christ. Le projet apportera une nouvelle perspective sur la culture visuelle et la théorie de l’image, et il cherchera à comprendre comment les images «fragiles» remodèlent notre compréhension de ces domaines. Plus précisément, il s’agira d’étudier la fragilité des images à travers des dimensions temporelles, sémantiques et ontologiques. FRAGILE IMAGES donnera un aperçu de la culture visuelle romaine, en soulignant sa sophistication et en remettant en question la vision traditionnelle du pouvoir et de la faiblesse.
Objectif
FRAGILE IMAGES fundamentally challenges the dominant notion of images as powerful actors. It moves away from the focus on the affective, persuasive, performative, and immersive image and instead focuses on its fragility, instability, ambiguity, and self-reflexivity. This radically new approach brings together a Visual Studies perspective and a cultural-historical approach and applies them to Roman imagery from the 2nd century BC to the 4th century AD. It has three main objectives:
1) A systematic study of pictorial fragility
The manifold phenomena of pictorial fragility are divided into three analytical dimensions: temporal fragility, which deals with the material, contextual, and conceptual mutability of images; semantic fragility, which deals with their ambiguity; and ontological fragility, which addresses their self-reflexivity. The case studies aim at elaborating the semantic, aesthetic, but also social potentials of such ‘fragile’ images.
2) A new perspective on Roman visual culture
By means of a comparative approach, the project explores the extent to which manipulated, ambiguous, and self-reflexive images differ in their spatial contexts and in their socio-cultural forms of use. This focus invites a new way of looking at Roman art: The temporality, ambiguity, and self-reflexivity of Roman images are constitutive elements of an innovative, sophisticated, intelligent, and even intellectual visual culture. This perspective moves away from the old view of Roman art as a mere derivative of Greek pictorial concepts.
3) A reformulation of image theory in the light of ‘fragile’ images
This project will not only challenge the common notion of the power of images, but also transcend the dichotomy of power and weakness. ‘Fragility’ is not considered as an image deficit, but as a pictorial quality to be analysed in terms of its specific potential. The focus on pictorial fragility will result in renegotiating the ‘activity’ of image and viewer.
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Thème(s)
Appel à propositions
(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) ERC-2023-ADG
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