ABSTRACT
The art of reading and inscribing traces and the testimony of violence are part of a movement that reclaims silenced and erased narratives. At the end of the eighteenth century, following the collapse of the paradigm that saw art as a mere imitation, artists and art theorists had to reinvent the relationship between fictionality and the world around people. Since Romanticism there has been a search for a new guiding principle for art, which has developed from the mimesis of ideas and master works of art, to a sort of carnal writing of history. The detective novel developed as an art of positioning oneself and reading traces that would lead to the "criminal". Countering the falsification of truth, art places itself on the side of other discourses that seek justice and truth. The most lasting art, which is modeled on the signifier, on remnants, on collecting ruins, returns to its task of salvaging fragments of reality.
