It’s understood that humans are visual creatures, navigating the world primarily through encountered images. Visual stimulus can function as a warning, as evidence, or as a trigger for some long-lost feeling of a bygone era. The spring issue of Flash Art, “Relevance,” explores such fleeting temporalities of representation. It begs the question: What does a memory, a TV show, or a feeling look like when it’s not viewed through the eyes but recreated through the hazy lens of retrospective remembering? The artists in this issue warp media through cheeky rearrangement and sly facsimile, speaking to the persistence of vision long after its affect has engaged the retina.

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