Reconstruction of Leopold Duke of Brabant’s portrait painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter - Limited Edition of 15 Photograph

I assumed the challenge of finding balance on the verge of history. My ambition was to cross the spacial and the time borders at once. I proceeded photographing people who have uprooted themselves from their homes because of war, poverty or lack of prospects and reached countries very different than their own, under a refugee identity. I then complemented their physical travel with an opportunity to travel through time, under a royal identity. Classical portraits of European political leaders are to be inhabited by immigrants taking on royal garments and poses to challenge the viewer to a mental drill: would anything be wrong about the pictures? I try to exercises your minds, freeing them from the groundless confinements of prejudice and confronting them with an alternate reality in order to encourage the viewers to act out a contemporary truth: ”us versus them” should not be the main narrative of our relationship with foreign people asking to join in. www.repaintinghistory.com

Photography:Digital on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:15

Size:30 W x 42 H x 0.1 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.