“What hands hold up a world where post-capitalist globalization untangles us from our own senses, physical, mental, and spiritual, embedding itself more and more in a logic of tele-consumerism, where encounters with other human beings are actually contact with an electronic device, a screen? Where do we find the essential foundations in the search for meaning when we are immersed in a cultural syncretism that gives us back mythological-religious-(dis)institutional bases increasingly empty of content and feeling, replacing what were once alchemical symbols of the spirit with mere ‘cool’ signs or convergent symbols of an updated nihilism, which no longer seeks to break with the system but to criticize it from a standpoint of indifference and acceptance? What awaits me if I cannot heal the world from within? What to expect when no one can hold it up anymore?” Martina Reitano

Visual Poetry received for the International Call for Visual Poetry 2084 Imagined Futures (2023), whose slogan was: “Imagine and send us your visual poetry creations from the future to our present. The time has come to occupy the future and allow your artistic vision to shape the world to come. Together we can transform dreams into reality.”
The call was organized by Aura Poesía Visual (http://aurapoesiavisual.blogspot.com/?m=0). We thank Ana Verónica Suárez and OmarOmar.

Visual poetry is a form of experimental artistic expression that combines visual and verbal elements to transmit a message with the image predominating over the verbal. Unlike traditional poetry, words can appear superimposed, deformed or combined with images and graphic elements (typefaces, photographs, illustrations, etc.) to create a poetic experience that transcends written language and its literal meaning.

Clarification: given that some of the visual poems have been delivered without a title, from the editing area of 2084 Futures Imagined from the South, we decided to give them a possible title with the intention of equaling them to others, simultaneously helping to distinguish them.