The Garden of Earthly Delights

The project explores the human body in its passage between the earthly and the divine, approaching love as a continuous condition that unfolds across time. Taking the story of Adam and Eve as a starting point, it considers all subsequent love stories as reinterpretations of the original narrative. In this sense, the story is not fixed in the past but continues to exist through its repetition, suggesting a form of human immortality. 

A central idea of the work is the connection between seduction and the acquisition of knowledge — the moment where desire and understanding arise together, as in the Edenic myth. The project reflects on the book as a form in which knowledge is contained and transmitted. This opens onto a proximity between the human body and the body of the book, understood as two parallel surfaces that register experience and time through different logics of sensation.

At the core of the work lies an old English botanical book, functioning as a metaphorical garden. Within this material field, botanical motifs and archetypal imagery unfold alongside fragments of the book and inhabitants of the Garden of Eden. The work operates as a site where different logics of sensation overlap and contaminate one another, dissolving the boundaries between body, book, myth, and nature.