The Mnemosyne Atlas (1924-1929) The Mnemosyne Atlas is an unfinished assemblage consisting of 2000 figurative images arranged in 60 wooden plates. Each plate displays a montage of photographs, reproductions from books, and visual materials from daily life. The images range from works of art from the Renaissance and antiquity (artworks, playing cards, archaeological finds, etc) to newspapers and stamps from the 20th Century. The Atlas is regarded as a visual document of the western imagination through the ages, revealing political violence through clusters of images throughout history. In his own words, Warburg sought to create “an atlas of images which, through a serial arrangement, would document antiquity-related expressive values, originally intended to represent the motions of internal and external life. The atlas will also serve as the basis for the development of a new theory of the function of human visual memory”.
Contenedor de feminismos ("Feminisms Container") , A collective project currently in progress, initiated by Galician artists Anxela Caramés, Carme Nogueira and Uqui Permui in 2009. The container- a mobile archive intended for public space- attempts to document and give visibility to the stories of feminist struggle and liberation in the last thirty years, and has travelled around different locations in Spain. In each place visited by the Container, archive materials are exhibited in non-hierarchical fashion in collaboration with local networks contributing to the project.
