Yesterday-Tomorrow

Yesterday – Tomorrow (2017) achieves a fundamentally new form of visual expression by reaching back to the beginnings of civilization. The work was created with a team of 55 experts, including 13 Egyptologists from leading international institutions. It is considered the revival and evolution of Ancient Egyptian art, in the form of a contemporary visual language called Aspective Realism. Among its defining features is the introduction of multi-perspective (aspective) figures, which challenge a core tenet of photography: namely, that a photograph is necessarily a single frozen moment, seen in central perspective. Each aspective figure is comprised of up to 24 exposures — photorealistic, but decidedly not naturalistic. Yesterday – Tomorrow’s 14 “photographic reliefs” (see exhibition views) portray contemporary themes, such as state propaganda, populism, xenophobia, surveillance, same-sex relationships and beauty culture.

The work has been exhibited solo at The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria and the Roemer- Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim. It is held by the collections of all three institutions, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and others.

  • Law and Order
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 3 + 2 A.P.
  • Soft Power
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 3 + 2 A.P.
  • Hard Power
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 3 + 2 A.P.
  • Horus is Watching You
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 3 + 2 A.P.
  • Dear Pharaoh
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 3 + 2 A.P.
  • Strangers in Our Midst
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 3 + 2 A.P.
  • The Alterable Past
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 3 + 2 A.P.
  • Topsy-Turvy
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 3 + 2 A.P.
  • By a Different Measure
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 3 + 2 A.P.
  • Woman in Charge
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 3 + 2 A.P.
  • Together Forever
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 3 + 2 A.P.
  • Forever Young
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 3 + 2 A.P.
  • Into the Forever
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 3 + 2 A.P.
  • Image Makers
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 3 + 2 A.P.