“New Kingdom” Art Trilogy
2024-2025
About the Trilogy
NEW KINGDOM
NEW KINGDOM explores the construction of contemporary authority through archetypal forms and symbolic image systems.
The works merge political portraiture, ritualized iconography, and sculptural reduction into a visual language that feels simultaneously ancient and contemporary.
Rather than referencing history directly, the series uses fragments of collective visual memory — symbols, ceremonial structures, and monumental stillness — to construct fictional identities that resemble mechanisms of power.
The sculptures exist between portrait, artifact, and icon.
Their surfaces and forms do not attempt historical reconstruction, but instead operate as contemporary symbolic objects shaped by ideas of permanence, mythology, image-making, and staged authority.
Within the series, recurring motifs function less as fixed symbols and more as open visual codes: elements that suggest ritual, hierarchy, protection, devotion, and political theater without resolving into a singular meaning.
NEW KINGDOM treats the image not as representation, but as a constructed monument.
The trilogy consists of three portraits, each accompanied by a distinct sculptural piece. Together, they form a dialogue between image and form, contemporary identity and ancient symbolism.
