The latent image. Light and video as an artistic strategy to redefine heritage

Abstract

In recent decades there have been encounters between the most advanced artistic practices and spaces of historical and natural interest. Some institutions dedicated to heritage conservation have invited current plastic and visual artists to carry out interventions at their headquarters. Projects have been developed that are highly conditioned by the locations that, from their initial conception, require interpreting the meaning of those places. Audiovisual projections allow artistic interventions that do not particularly affect the conservation of these cultural assets. But the success of these proposals does not consist only of a quantitative question, which for example responds to how many viewers attended certain video mapping shows. The true interest of these interventions is that the artists can reinterpret these places, that they investigate their memory, so that these proposals offer us a renewed look at these heritage sites in dialogue with their history.