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 the concept of a 'new world order' resonates within politics, New Image Order examines shared layers of history, culture, and identity that shape life. By rendering the world as a stage, the assembled images offer a canvas for the past to coalesce with the present, inviting viewers to ponder the ever-evolving tapestry of our world.
In New Image Order, 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.”
These works inhabit a new visual terrain—where power and culture collide, reorder, and reappear.
