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.
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.