Historiography and curatorship: Visual stories from archival images

Abstract

The development of curatorial proposals based on the elaboration of documentary collections that are constituted in archives is common today and it links fields such as museography, curatorship and artistic processes. The curatorial practice has allowed us to confront the elaboration of the historical narrative to conduct research that lead to the elaboration and consolidation of documentary collections of images that result in something visual and that, characterized around a file, make it possible to establish content hypertexts that focuses on the museographic commitment as an open reading field for the observer. This article seeks to present the creative articulation of historiographical processes and curatorial postulates around the elaboration of alternative stories to history and the art history. Based on the reflection on the development of two research projects and historical curatorship (Múltiples y originales: arte y cultura visual en Colombia: años 70 [2010] and Rojo y más rojo. Taller 4 Rojo: producción gráfica y acción directa [2012]) we present how we have tried to assimilate contents resulting from visual repertoires, partially articulated in iconographic or iconologic terms, that seek to confront the visual culture through the re-reading involved in the expository context.