From amazement to questioning

Abstract

The present article reports on two theoretical essays, “Quelle émotion! Quelle émotion?”, by Georges Didi-Huberman and “Uma foto familiar: aprisco de emoções e pensamentos [anotações delirantes sobre (a) sombrografia]”/ “A familiar photo: unfolding emotions and thoughts [delusional notes on shadowgraphy], by Eduardo Peñuela Cañizal. It then reflects on the history of the visual arts, the nature of images, the ways we interpret them and the search for human emotions in their expressive and artistic forms. By doing that, we invite the reader to attempt to what each one of the mentioned authors has to say about “gestures”, about the work of the “unconscious”, about “imagination” and about the dimensions – heuristic and poetic – of the human “files of memory”.