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ISSUE Nº 10To happen/To unhappen Following Reality Check, an exploration of expectation, belief, and the fragmentation of reality into multiple, often conflicting perspectives, System of Situations takes the images from the previous issue as its starting point and throws them into a new set of circumstances. Through collage, these images collide with a myriad of … the-iconomist_10_system_of_situations
ISSUE Nº 9To believe/To discredit The ninth issue of THE-ICONOMIST, titled Reality-Check, explores the fragmentation of shared reality in an era of continuous image circulation. Moving from a relatively common visual culture toward a polyculture of personalized information, the issue reflects on how images no longer simply represent the world, but increasingly anticipate, organize, and … the_iconomist_9_reality_check
1×1 is a meeting place for images. Every moment, two appear—one on the left, one on the right—and form a momentary relationship before disappearing. Nothing repeats itself. The work moves on its own, even without the visitor’s gesture, as if it were breathing. The images cannot be saved, only seen: they remain in the time … play_1x1
Nº 8 — AFTER-IMAGE. The eighth issue of THE-ICONOMIST, titled To propose / To recreate, takes as its point of departure Édouard Glissant’s notion of the aprèzan: the present as a living interval between destruction and regeneration. From this idea unfolds a reflection on what it means to create in an era where images multiply … the_iconomist_issue_8_to_propose
This zine gathers images of waiting rooms, those quiet, interchangeable spaces where time folds in on itself. Each chair, each fluorescent light, each artificial plant performs the same choreography of stillness. Nothing happens, and yet everything is about to. The people who pass through leave no trace except the faint echo of anticipation, the weight … zine_inthewaitingroom
Memoryscape, a speculative short story by THE-ICONOMIST, investigates the collapse between memory, technology, and subjectivity. A narrator navigates feeds, notifications, algorithms, and system failures in search of himself, finding only residues: echoes, noises, and fragments of a life mediated by devices. Between archived dreams, captcha identities, and emotions translated into data, the book constructs a … memoryscape_2025
“We always think of the imagination as the faculty that forms images. On the contrary, it deforms what we perceive; it is, above all, the faculty that frees us from immediate images and changes them. … Imagination is essentially open and elusive. We could say that a stable and completely realized image clips the wings … gaston-bachelard_imagination