“I’d like to know more about the reasons why we want to produce and view artificial images at all; way too many of them, as it has now become clear. I have often argued that images do not demonstrate or prove anything at all; at best, they may achieve the status of symbols, something of much more enduring value than evidence or, worse, ‘content’. Images have nothing to explain; it is us who should explain ourselves to them, and justify the fact that we have made them exist.” — Paolo Cherchi-Usai