David Sheldrick
458-the-door, 2025
Empire is a new collection by British-Korean artist Sheldrick exploring how photography preserves, distorts, and reshapes our view of history. Drawing meticulously from an extensive archive of over 35,000 colour film slides spanning 1940 to 1990—painstakingly sourced from estate sales, second-hand markets, and private collections—Sheldrick digitally transforms these personal and historic images into evocative layered compositions through meticulous restoration and advanced artificial intelligence.