La memoria en los ojos. Reflexiones sobre imágenes e historia: ¿podemos definir un repertorio colombiano?

Abstract

What is the relationship that images establish with memory and history? In other words: What is the function pictures have in a particular narration of past events and, specially, how can an image summarize this event and be, almost, its mnemonic substitute? We want to think of images, not only as a vehicle of knowledge and historical memory, but also of a (non-neutral) constructor of an individual and collective look. Finally, the text aims to ask if Colombians share a specific repertoire of images of their recent past and, if so, question why those images, and not any other, have prevailed. In order to do this, we critically use the concept of secular icon applied to an exercise carried out with a group of students.