Photographer: Erwan Tarlet
Assistant and Model: Soledad Moles
Special thx to Raphaelle Manas and Silvia Rochino 

“This project of bodies in nature is something I started years ago with people I love. Most of the time, I go with someone I love to explore nature, set up the camera, and teach them when and how to shoot me. Recently, I have been sharing this project with one particular person I love, Soledad Moles, who was also doing circus. I taught her some techniques too, and we began to create images together. Now she is also continuing the project by being photographed by other lovers she has. A precarious balance, inevitably doomed to failure. A body caught just before it falls. A suspended humanity clinging to its last breath. A contemplative odyssey of a long fall that never happens, yet is obvious. The body of an invasive, metastatic species. This body holds. But for how much longer? This world is certainly walking on its head…
In the myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus describes three possibilities once you’ve fully understood the world you live in: politics, art, or suicide. This is one of the only outlets I’ve found for not choosing the last option. Like the scientists of the IPCC or the Meadows Report, who have been warning in the same way for over 50 years, I’ve chosen the same motif of making assisted self-portraits or portraits of other bodies of people I love to represent the aberrance of the situation and the collective suicide to come as a result of our activity. One of the functions of art is to present us with images or objects that we think we can recognize at first glance, but which very quickly turn out to be something else, if not the opposite of what we expected.

“Love of the end” tries to poetically sublimate nature, the body, and humanity at its most extreme to reveal its destruction and imminent extinction, dancing on the brink of an unconscious collective suicide and under all of that, sharing it with love.”