TRAUMA PORN Reloaded

AI-generated images, vintage photography, 2025

The series uses Derrida’s Hauntology as a framework to explore contemporary right-wing populism, merging imagery from Nazi Germany with today’s visual symbols and technologies. Fascism survives not as an active regime but as an echo – an unresolved past looping through the present. It lingers in aesthetics, symbols, fears, and the seductive simplicity of authoritarian answers to complex problems. Hauntology exposes how these residues return in disguised forms: nostalgia for imaginary golden ages, the fetish of order, the myth of “purity,” the longing for a future that ressembles a past. It’s not about reenacting history but about recognizing how its shadows keep shaping our desires, our politics, and our images.

Through the lens of Hauntology, this work becomes a mirror held up to our current society — exposing how the spectral specters of “the past” suffuse our images, our fears, our politics. It asks not “remember?” but “recognize what’s still here.”