In This photographic series stages a paradoxical inversion of the colonial gaze. Drawing on the iconography of classical paintings — where emissaries from distant lands bring tributes to the peoples they would soon subjugate — the work reframes the narrative of conqueror and conquered. Here, those once portrayed as “primitive” emerge as advanced and futuristic civilizations, while the European conquerors appear as figures tethered to a distant past.

Set in a landscape that seems wild and untamed, subtle traces of technological civilization pierce the scene, disrupting temporal and historical boundaries. In this charged encounter, power is no longer a fixed axis but a shifting terrain, and the act of conquest is exposed as a complex choreography of desire, domination, projection, and reversal. The result is a visual reflection on how history is written — and how it might be rewritten — when the gaze itself is decolonized.