Theatricality and representation of History: Ethics, memory and suspended action in Mayorga's dramaturgy

Reflection on the image reaches the second half of the twentieth century zenith an episode, one of whose chief representatives is to be the theoretical and literature emerged around the photographic image. The ontology of the photographic image, thus, represents a fundamental event in the critical theoretical framework and on the imagination. The notion of image and reflection on it is established that permeates not only the field of theory and practice of art but also affects the coding literature assuming a source of epistemological reflection about representation and authenticity phenomenological of this. The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of thinking about the photographic image and its practical demonstration as action in the specific case of Juan Mayorga’s drama, where the analysis of the photographic ontology is at the service of understanding not only of reality but also of history, memory and emotions through the dialectical imagination as proposed in the play El cartógrafo.