An investigation based on this premise do not consider the work of art, or any other image, as a historical fait accompli, but celebrates art's ability to contain a dynamic, creative and signifying dimensionality.

Rather than applying a linear, chronological or teleological historical gaze an exhibition build on this premise applies what one might call a vertical ontological historicity, in which the meanings of images are not established and predetermined, but instead can cross-illuminate each other in a dynamic way across large temporal or contextual divisions.

By examining the archive from this point of view the exhibition raises fundamental questions about images as stable conveyers of historical knowledge; history as process and development; but also about (image)history as a transversal and long historical duration ( la longue durée), in which visual formalities and epistemological themes emerge again and again in renewed, yet related, variations.

Metaphores trigger contingency
Contingency trigger anxiety
Future trigger anxiety
Archive trigger contingency