For 14 years, while working on high-level foresight and governance projects, futurist Corin Ism developed a parallel body of visual work – never exhibited, never shared. These large-scale murals, created on metal, fabric, and glass, rework the visual language of power: systems of control and collapse, reconfigured into mirrored, mythic forms. Each piece is accompanied by a written title – ranging from a single word to multi-page texts – that extends or refracts the image. Together, they offer glimpses of a movement coming into being.
In 2025, a selection of these works was published in The Next Aesthetic, a limited-edition book shared directly with a small group of curators and institutions. It is not for sale and is not available online. In an accompanying video work, film director Jeronimo Sarmiento collaborates with Ism to render this world in motion, a first brief view into a larger feature.
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