PROLOGUE What is th

PROLOGUE: What is the value that an image acquires past a crisis? To follow, the fourth chapter of “A WORLD OF IMAGES, THE IMAGES OF THE WORLD”, a visual itinerary envisioned by @caro16caro and @a legenissel through some of the works presented at #LOOPFair 2019, or a fragmented narrative to make sense of this time. CHAPTER 4: The unsettling times we are living will certainly have deep consequences on our individual and social life. Same goes for the art world. The number of fairs and biennals being cancellad only accelerated a debate around the sustainability of the system as we knew it. Will this conjucture be a trigger for change? VISUAL APPENDIX: Some of these reflection around the art world were already outlined with a wit and satyrical by Taus Makhacheva @tausmakhacheva in her video “Baida” (presented at LOOP Fair 2019 by London based gallery @narrative projects ), a fictional documentation of a performance that never took place. The work was shown online during the Venice Biennale in 2017 and professed to relate to the lives and deaths of fishermen on the Caspian Sea; in the film, the characters who try and fail to see the work are recognizable art world types including an overly earnest Englishman and a collector who jokes about being 'up all night thinking about the Anthropocene'. The video is available on the Biennale’s profile on YouTube —> Link in bio. #LOOPBarcelona #aworldofimages #theimagesoftheworld #throwbackseries #artfair #videoartfair #movingimage #storytelling