FIMS Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2024
Volume
8
Journal
Quaderni di Venezia Arti
First Page
95
URL with Digital Object Identifier
http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-878-1/005
Last Page
110
Abstract
The essay explores how the composition of the photo-architectural installation A Photogenetic Line (2019) by the Mumbai-based CAMP studio redounds in stretching Walter Benjamin’s multiform conceptual schema of the ‘dialectical image’ on two essential fronts: the flash-like nature of its appearance and its monadic configuration. Decoding this function proffered by the installation, in turn, reveals a revisionary historical materialist approach that rearticulates the question of violence in light of resurgent authoritarian populisms in South Asia.
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