The contribution for BIENALSUR 2020 consists of works of the project ATLAS OF THE ESSENCE. This project deals with and consists of four parts: Part I - Wars and Conflicts, Part II - Social Issues, Part III - Environmental Issues and Part IV - Natural Disasters. 
In this artistic research for counter-images several hundreds images researched in image archives and social networks are superimposed to unite a variety of perspectives - not only the one of western photographers which still dominate the press but also from the one directly affected. The artworks present the viewer a picture while at the same time they withhold a clearly recognizable one. They demand of the viewer a performative act of perception and consequently of interaction with what is depicted. In doing so they try to work against the passivity with which images of social and political issues are being watch and which in turn leads to habituation and dullness.
It’s a time where images are omnipresent in the daily life and almost everybody can contribute their own view and perspective on an event. In my artistic practice I am concerned with an investigation of methodologies of knowledge production about social and political issues through images. The work ATLAS OF THE ESSENCE attempts to facilitate a discourse that merges image concepts with testimony and the inherent phenomenology of images and language as a result, evidence or testimony of political and social issues.