The main objective of this group is to conduct interdisciplinary research on memories of slavery, colonialism in its many aspects, and contemporary legacies. Special attention will be paid to the images generated and their diverse uses as a vehicle to scrutinise the persistence of current forms of racism and racialism. The geographical context of the research will be mainly Spanish, covering a period of time from the emergence of mechanic means of image production and reproduction to the present day.

From this historical perspective, the research will analyse the visual representations that photography and film have used to illustrate and disseminate these phenomena among the general public. All of this with the purpose of unveiling and critically analysing their contemporary presence in photography, advertising, textbooks, film, television programmes, and the internet. Our aim is to produce academic, educative, and museum strategies that, through aesthetics, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, and artistic practices, enable the recognition of subaltern histories and the symbolic restitution of a poorly-known past.

In this way, the theoretical framework of this research group is based on visual and cultural studies from an anti-colonial perspective. In addition, the studies on memory and post-memory, to the extent that the research integrates equally the imagery that forms the iconic basis of settler memory as well as subsidiary memory.