In response to the crisis of institutional art—where excessive discourse and moralizing replace the visual work—we proclaim the supremacy of the photographic image as an independent, polysemous entity, free from ideological constraints. Photographs are to be experienced; they need not be understood.
- Formal Silence: The photographic sequence, sequential rhythm, and materiality of the medium generate intrinsic meaning, without superimposed theoretical frameworks or pre-formatted political narratives. Without discourse, without smoke and mirrors.
- Powerful Ambiguity: The image seduces through ambivalence, overlapping universal experiences without didactic stances.
- Rejection of Homogenization: Against discursive standardization, we defend visual experimentation, chaos, and the personal image, which unsettles without ideological guarantees.
- Moral Autonomy: We reject the moralizing that turns the artist into a social guarantor, prioritizing prescribed virtue over experiential aesthetics.
- Sensory Legitimacy: Validation through the disruptive capacity of the gaze and direct experience, not through abstract rhetoric or subsidies. Experience the image; don’t decipher it.