Hereafter 2025

The exhibition will be accompanied by a book published by Swedenborg House and edited by Simon Moretti, featuring a selection of writers who will explore Swedenborgian themes through essays, prose and poetry. The commissioned writers include Chloe Aridjis, Jennifer Higgie and Deborah Levy. These responses will be presented alongside the works of previous Romantic and Symbolist poets who were directly influenced by Swedenborg such as Charles Baudelaire, William Blake, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stéphane Mallarmé and Edgar Allan Poe, as well as others such as Ithell Colquhoun, John Donne, Derek Jarman, Wallace Stevens and Tristan Tzara. The book will also feature a new poem written by Andrew Durbin plus images of the artists' works and objects from the Swedenborg House collection as part of a visual essay designed by Moretti.