“Ageless, Ageless” at Shimmer, Rotterdam (opens in new tab)

Howdy, Mousse Magazine Through his study of images, the historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929) coined the term Pathosformel, which he defined as “charged visual figures”: specific gestures, postures, or expressions that recur across time. Warburg noticed that these visual figures return to us as concentrated signals of suffering, fear, or ecstasy: motifs that operate as sites where