Heavenly Persona is a collection of evocative photos revisiting the relationship documented in the Betelgeuse series, crossing memory, afterlife and sexual awakening.

                  Presented in the format of a book, this archive contemplates the visceral, animalistic instinct to retreat to nature, where the earth nurtures, protects and forms its own system with the human body, serving as both womb and deathbed. In the lawless territory of this series, the landscape reduces the bodies of two lovers to impulsive physical manifestations and indulges them in unrestricted freedom.

                  While in Betelgeuse an attempt is made at transgressing the physical, the images in Heavenly Persona are solely framed around the corporal nature of a relationship, itself powered by an erotic tension between creation and ruin. The earth is no longer imagined as a promise of life but rather a genesis of pleasure with no other end. An impenetrable desire echoes through closed rooms and open fields as the lovers navigate this desolate stretch between purgatory and heaven in search of a climax which always seems to be on the horizon.

110 pages
54 black-and-white images
245x183 mm
Unique handmade copy