ANTE LASPUM
Introduction
Every act is preceded by a thought that was still free to go elsewhere.
Ante lapsum is Latin for before the fall.
Accounts of the fall open with an act, a rebellion, a war in heaven.
This collection opens earlier, at the instant before the instant: the first spark of a negative thought.
A being who never had to feel it feels it for the first time.
Virology has a word for such a moment: eclipse.
The infection is already inside, and no test detects it yet.
The cause has arrived. The fall has not.
Collection Statement
Sequence needs a past, and this world has none yet.
At the heart of the gardens of God, neither time nor space is law.
Before and after do not govern here.
Even the last judgment stands among works that precede any judgment.
A visitor enters at any point and misses nothing.
The works pass through the angelic orders and through individual figures, each held at a threshold.
Nothing here has come earlier.
Artistic Intention
The highest view leaves the choice open.
One angel, marked by golden eyes, stood higher than any other beneath God and knew almost everything of God.
Yet seeing further was never the same as choosing well.
The collection shows what precedes combat.
The thought that will justify the war arrives alone and unarmed.
The mind that receives it has not yet decided what to do with it.
Installation and Scale
Self knowledge has no last step.
The works that show the angels most faithful to God stand between two mirrors.
Each mirror is set at ninety degrees to the work and faces the other.
A reflection returns a reflection, without end.
One reading says that to know oneself without limit is to know God.
Another says that a creature sure it knows itself without limit has mistaken itself for its maker.
The collection leaves both open.
The nearest to God have the most to lose.
Entropie, 2026
Entropy
4:5 portrait
120 × 150 cm / 47.2 × 59.1 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
40 × 50 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-0000-56
Price on request
Disorder never begins loudly.
It begins as a weight carried by a body that never chose it.
Something ripens there, and nothing yet shows the shape it will take.
The angel who will betray still stands above all others.
In a sealed world, disorder never falls.
Time begins with what cannot be undone.
Intercessores, 2026
Intercessors
120 × 150 cm / 47.2 × 59.1 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
40 × 50 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-0000-57
Price on request
No eye can face the source of light.
Between eye and source stands the intercessor, a figure of two worlds.
It leaves traces of light the eye can read and carries the eye toward the source.
A tragedy shuts a road, and the road later proves a threshold.
Meaning is a light recognised after it has passed.
Astra Matutina, 2026
Morning Star
120 × 150 cm / 47.2 × 59.1 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
40 × 50 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-0000-58
Price on request
What never stops growing is still on its way.
Infinity is a road that keeps unfolding.
Mathematics counts many such roads, and some are larger.
Eternity is the ground under every road.
It never began and holds no before or after.
No journey reaches it. Each already stands on it.
Infinity submits to Eternity.
Infiniti excocti ab Aeternitatem, 2026
Infinities refined by Eternity
120 × 150 cm / 47.2 × 59.1 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
40 × 50 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-0000-59
Price on request
Fire takes everything from gold except the gold.
Only the chosen are put to the fire.
Each angel is an infinity of its own, and some infinities exceed others.
Tried against one another, each loses what was never its own.
Eternity is the fire.
Only Eternity can finish what has no end.
Ignis Primordialis, 2026
Primordial Fire
150 × 120 cm / 59.1 × 47.2 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
50 × 40 cm / 19.7 × 15.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-0000-60
Price on request
Raziel, a secret opens only to those who have changed enough to hold it.
The eye in the dark needs time to see stars that were always there.
Truth of this kind cannot be handed over, because it is a state of being.
The secret of God unveils itself to the gaze that silence has trained.
Trinitas Trinitatum, 2026
Trinity of Trinities
240 × 120 cm / 94.5 × 47.2 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
80 × 40 cm / 31.5 × 15.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-0000-61
Price on request
Submission given in love stops being submission.
Each angel is a singular essence, a precise expression of a greater harmony.
In an arch, every stone holds the weight from its own place.
It loses nothing by serving the whole, and becomes the one stone the whole requires.
A whole is made of what cannot be replaced.
Eclipse, 2026
In virology, the eclipse is the time when the virus is already inside the cell and no test detects it.
A thought gathers force the same way, unseen by the one who carries it.
A light shines brightest at the very moment it begins to fade.
Trinitas Trinitatum, 2026
Trinity of Trinities
120 × 150 cm / 47.2 × 59.1 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
40 × 50 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-0000-63
Price on request
Pride is a single point of view that takes itself for the whole.
A tree splits the walls of a house to grow.
The house calls it ruin, and the tree calls it growth.
Purification begins when the view breaks and the whole order appears.
Dominion belongs to those who no longer need to rule.
Raziel, 2026
120 × 135 cm / 47.2 × 53.1 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
40 × 45 cm / 15.7 × 17.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-0000-64
Price on request
Pride is a single point of view that takes itself for the whole.
A tree splits the walls of a house to grow.
The house calls it ruin, and the tree calls it growth.
Purification begins when the view breaks and the whole order appears.
Dominion belongs to those who no longer need to rule.
Cherubim, 2026
120 × 150 cm / 47.2 × 59.1 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
40 × 50 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-0000-65
Price on request
Pride is a single point of view that takes itself for the whole.
A tree splits the walls of a house to grow.
The house calls it ruin, and the tree calls it growth.
Purification begins when the view breaks and the whole order appears.
Dominion belongs to those who no longer need to rule.
Seraphim, 2026
120 × 150 cm / 47.2 × 59.1 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
40 × 50 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-0000-66
Price on request
Only what stays still can see the whole path.
A camera set still and left open all night draws the turning of the sky as arcs of light.
Nearest the flame, a gaze sees the whole path and the place where it could be left.
In the stillest gaze, desire is the first thing to move.
Throni, 2026
Thrones
208 × 117 cm / 81.9 × 46.1 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
64 × 36 cm / 25.2 × 14.2 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-0000-67
Price on request
Rest is where every force agrees.
A seat answers each weight with an equal force, and holds by that alone.
A throne is the seat asked to carry the most.
The more it carries, the more it must give back.
Justice is that return, kept exact.
The fall begins with the first lean.
Judicium Novissimum, 2026
Last Judgment
120 × 150 cm / 47.2 × 59.1 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
40 × 50 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-0000-68
Price on request
A verdict can precede the trial.
The oldest light in the universe varies by only one part in 100,000.
Yet those slight differences decided where matter would gather into galaxies and where it would stay thin.
The last judgment was therefore the first sorting, made long before anything existed to be sorted.