The author offers a reflection based on the works presented at the exhibit Iconoclash. Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art, at the Center for New Art and Media, in Karlsruhe in 2002, where the curators put together three fields - religion, science and contemporary art, in which images have been presented as "cultural weapons" through an ambiguous struggle that both produces and destroys images, icons and emblems. Iconoclash was the term chosen to define the theme of this exhibition and guide the author's reflection on hatred and fanaticism, in the diverse ambits of the cultural, social and political life. Moving towards an alternative type of "iconophilia", beyond the image wars, the author suggests the suspension of the iconoclast gesture, opting for a cascade of images in transformation, instead of focusing obsessively on images fixed and frozen out of their flow.
art; image; religion; science
