New Image Order
2024
Photocollage of nineteenth and early twentieth-century photochromes.
Photochromes were originally black-and-white photographs, later transformed into vivid color through a meticulous printing technique—simulating color long before color photography existed. Back then, the result must have looked like magic.
Reordering images from fragments of the past challenges the boundaries of time and space, inviting viewers into a realm where history and fiction converge, where painting and photography meet.
In an era where “new world order” has returned as a political refrain, New Image Order examines how history, culture, and identity are staged through images. The works recombine archival fragments into new scenes—where the past doesn’t disappear, it reenters.
These works inhabit a new visual terrain—where power and culture collide, reorder, and reappear. The world becomes a theater—where 19th-century photochromes return to the stage, performing new scenes where photography meets painting, and the past slips quietly into the present.
New Image Order I
A Russian story unfolds beneath a mural-painted neoclassical ceiling from the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
New Image Order II
German streets reappear—crowned by imperial ornament from the Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam.
New Image Order III
Fragments of Egypt surface—reviving the visual codes of colonization.
New Image Order IV
Boys swim near a U.S. base where a container boasts:
“Schlitz—the beer that made Milwaukee famous.”
