The reflection is an image-device that displays a singular temporality in which the linear and progressive perception of time is suspended. Based on this approach, this article traces a journey through contexts and projects ranging from visual arts, exhibitions, archives, video, cinema and theater. The common denominator is reflections as an operation in time that activates a transformation, in the literal sense of going from one form to another, as well as a politics of the gaze. The references that are handled describe, like the reflections, a back and forth movement, between the sixties and seventies, when video and performance were discovered as ways of working in real time, and the current moment in which these approaches have been assimilated by digital technology as transversal characteristics of the artistic medium.