The Missing Image. A Proposal for the Restitution of Memory
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https://doi.org/10.17561/rtc.extra10.9941Keywords:
Arts Education, Co-Creation, Identity, Absence, Memory, Pedagogy of Listening, AdolescenceAbstract
This article presents The Missing Image, an artistic co-creation laboratory that carried out its pilot phase in a school in Barcelona. The project positions the school as a space of cultural production and art—photography, cinema, and visual arts—as a language to explore identity, elaborate absence(s), and restitute personal and collective memories. Its theoretical framework is structured around three axes: the education of the gaze in the context of visual saturation; contemporary art as experience and experimentation; and absence as a productive driver of self-knowledge. The process unfolds through sensitization exercises culminating in the creation of each participant’s own “missing image.” Initial results reveal changes in the relationship with images (slower assimilation, greater agency), improvements in practices of community and care, and the capacity to generate visual narratives that give form to what has been silenced.
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