94” x 48” x 126”
Audio: 4 minutes looped
New For Tomorrow explores the hollow promises of progress under late capitalism. Drawing from the writing of cultural theorist Mark Fisher, particularly his theories of Capitalist Realism and the slow cancellation of the future, this work examines the persistent gap between the language of innovation and the lived reality of economic and cultural stagnation. The sculpture is composed of a modular aluminum I-beam structure, evoking the aesthetics of generic construction and infrastructural development. Attached to the structure are digitally manipulated signs featuring stock imagery of workers, construction laborers, office employees, and industrial personnel alongside non-specific corporate logos. These images, of context and specificity, resemble the kind of promotional material found in public-private development sites, onboarding portals, or corporate diversity initiatives. Their familiarity creates a sense of ambient neutrality. The work questions the visual and rhetorical apparatus of progress. What is “new,” and for whom? The phrase New For Tomorrow reads as both an aspirational slogan and a critique, a simulation of futurity that, like Fisher’s diagnosis, gestures toward change while delivering more of the same. By assembling fragments of capitalist visual culture into an open, industrial framework, the sculpture remains unfinished by design suggesting that the future is not foreclosed, but suspended, waiting to be reclaimed.