Kiss me said the fire
– Come to me, beautiful. This is the end of all times, the fi re whispers.
The moth comes. They merge in a millisecond of earth-shattering ecstacy. An ejaculation of sudden light appears when the wings catch fire. Consumed by the biggest orgasm in the world. It’s all there!
For the moth, the fire is irresistible. When it sees the light of the fl ames, it’s not driven by reason anymore, nor survival. The lust is archaic and omnipotent, from a source deep within the origins of life itself.
The flower spreads its petals as wide as it can, pistils elongated. It’s begging for it.
Deep in the ditch, everything becomes a soft mush, porous and penetrable. Land and water in unholy union, impregnated by an abundance of organisms swimming around in a slimy soup. While mating and fertilizing their mushy lumps of eggs, they do not think about the fact that at night the water surface is refl ecting a star which is billions of kilometers away.
Up there, balls of gas are burning with an intensifying power. The Belt of Orion slowly unbuckles and 69 lightyears of annihilating desire is released across the universe. The cum hits me as a luminous diamond in the sky and I swallow it with my soul.
Kiss me said the fi re, is Julia Selin’s fi rst solo exhibition in Malmö since 2016. The paintings were produced in 2024 and 2025 with a burning heart. Previous exhibitions include Matteo Cantarella, Copenhagen, Skene, Malmö, Porte, Leipzig, Tara Downs, New York, Malmö Konsthall and more.
Thanks to: Matti Sumari, Olof Nimar, Ingrid Furre, Kah Bee Chow and André Talborn.
