As Long as the Sun Lasts

As Long as the Sun Lasts
Joselito Verschaeva
Void 

17,1 x 24,4 cm 
144 pages 
750 copies 
Hardcover with French folds 

ISBN 978-618-5479-45-9
$73

From Void: ‘As Long as the Sun Lasts’ is Joselito Verschaeve’s second monograph, following his acclaimed debut ‘If I call stones blue it is because blue is the precise word’. In this new work, Verschaeve gathers images from his ever-growing archive to imagine a world on the verge of ending—a tender, melancholic reflection on creation, fragility, and persistence in uncertain times.

‘As Long as the Sun Lasts’ follows Joselito Verschaeve’s characteristic working process: building an ever-growing archive of photographs from daily encounters, sketching ideas, and drawing from this pool of images to shape a new story. For this book, the photographs conjure a world that feels close to its ending. They pulse with a soft melancholy, as if the light itself were counting down.

The title borrows from Italo Calvino’s ‘Cosmicomics’, where the sun nears its death and humanity prepares for its own. Yet, in Calvino’s story, the end isn’t only tragedy—it is also clarity, a strange peace that comes from recognising life’s transience. Verschaeve’s work holds the same duality: a tension between continuation and collapse, optimism and extinction, beauty and the certainty it won’t last. This oscillation between drive and doubt shapes every page of the book, and resonates with our present moment—when the theme of the world coming to an end feels less like fiction.

“The title can be read very optimistically: to keep creating as long as time allows it. But at the same time, it carries a dystopian undertone—that things could end at any given time.”