“The image at once presents an absent thing and designates the thing presented as unreal, because it is absent. In other words the image presents in two directions at once, the image is constitutively, ontologically ambiguous..that’s the power of the image. It points to the presence of the unreal and the absence of the real (it performs both these functions simultaneously).”

Peter Osborne: On The Historical Existence Of Objects (32Min-35Min)  Video, 2016.