Gradiva

Here is the first major monograph on the work of the thoughtful and introspective contemporary photographer Jesus Labandeira. Inspired by W. Jensen's short story Gradiva, A Pompeiian Fancy (1903), Sigmund Freud's subsequent analysis of the story in Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva (1907), and by Salvador Dali's stunning surrealist masterpiece, Metamorphosis of Narcisuss (1937), Labandeira's photo essay takes viewers on an inner journey through theoretically unrelated images with unconscious aim of metamorphosis.