Positionings of the memory

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to investigate the enunciation created when a subject, in a space of memory, looks at a photograph where a person, connected with a traumatic event, is represented. In particular, considering the dynamics of “me-you” (as theorized by Schapiro) evoked by the frontality of the photographs, I propose a reflection on the “proxemics of memory”. In particular, I consider the positioning in space of the spectator-subject that allows him/her to always change his/her acting role, “becoming” perpetrator and victim according to the enunciation that is activated. To do this, I focus on three case studies that represent three different ways of changing the spectator’s acting role, so as to propose reflections on the ways in which traumatic memory is transmitted through photographs that “look into the eyes”.