HEREAFTER

Description

Hereafter, edited by Simon Moretti is the latest publication within the Swedenborg Archive Series. Produced to accompany Moretti’s acclaimed exhibition at Swedenborg House, Hereafter (★★★★★ in Artforum), which runs until 30 June 2025, this elegant hardback book with blue boards contains newly commissioned works from award-winning writers Chloe Aridjis, Andrew Durbin, Jennifer Higgie and Deborah Levy, as well as selections of poetry and prose by Charles Baudelaire, William Blake, Ithell Colquhoun, John Donne, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Derek Jarman, Stéphane Mallarmé, Edgar Allan Poe, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wallace Stevens and Tristan Tzara.

The book is first presented in a limited edition of 200 copies, individually numbered, with an exclusive artwork postcard signed by Simon Moretti.

SIMON MORETTI is an artist based in London. His work deals with psychoanalytical and philosophical concepts through context and display, the use of appropriated images, archives, curatorial and publishing projects. Exhibitions include: Eau Sauvage, Mackintosh Lane, London (2022); Crocodile Cradle, PEER, London (2021); None of the Above, a project by John Armleder, KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Brussels (2020); The Enigma of the Hour, with Goshka Macuga, Freud Museum, London (2019); A Utopian Stage: to be free is to lose sight of the shore, curated by Vali Mahlouji, Dhaka Art Summit 18, Bangladesh (2018); Revolt of the Sage, with Craig Burnett, Blain|Southern, London (2017); The Camera Exposed, works from the collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2016); and Les Palais des Étoiles, Dadadandy at Selfridges, London (2007).