Hereafter Book Launch & Event with Maxwell Sterling

Doors 6pm

Performance starts at 6.30pm

Please join us for the launch of the latest publication within the Swedenborg Archive Series: Hereafter, edited by Simon Moretti. Produced to accompany Moretti's acclaimed exhibition at Swedenborg House, Hereafter (★★★★★ in Artforum), 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 launch night will be an opportunity to purchase a limited edition (200, individually numbered) copy of the book, signed by Moretti.

“[Moretti’s] Double Vortex (after Emanuel Swedenborg), 2025, is the show’s cipher. This work’s very shape—like a ram’s horns atop an Ionic column—points to the heavens. Inviting the celestial thus into the gallery, it suggests that every work of art is an instantiation of an idea conceived by a superior being.” —Pierre d’Alancaisez, ARTFORUM

ORDER YOUR COPY HERE

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); and None of the Above, a project by John Armleder, Kanal-Centre Pompidou, Brussels (2020).

MAXWELL STERLING is a composer, producer and double bassist, who has collaborated extensively with leading film and television directors and contemporary artists and designers, including Max Kestner, Tai Shani and Stella McCartney. Max’s recent albums include Turn of Phrase (2021), (with Martha Skye Murphy), Distance on the Ground (2022) and Listening to the Unheard (2023).