Impossible Bodies, Houses as Altars: A New Ontology of Grief
by Carlo Borloni
Not for its volume, but for its slowness. Not for shock value, but for its ability to raise questions we usually avoid until forced:
What becomes of desire when the object of desire dies? What shape does grief take when images allow loss to remain alive?
At a time when technology multiplies duplicates, avatars, and digital ghosts, noonenoise responds with an imaginary that is neither futurist nor nostalgically analog, it is disarmingly human. And because of this, profoundly unsettling.
His collaboration with Noonenoise, a master of serene, sublime, almost therapeutic architecture, creates what could be described as a post-traumatic emotional surrealism. Modernist structures, immaculate surfaces, fragile geometries: they feel like places built for memories rather than for the living.
When these spaces meet noonenoise’s monumental, dripping, impossible figures, a rupture occurs. The world bends; something slips outside the laws of matter. The dead woman returns not as a zombie, not as a vengeful ghost, but as an epiphany of unextinguished desire.
Here, grief is not a conclusion, it is a movement. A flow. A tide returning again and again.
The body becomes water, water becomes skin, the dream becomes a lifeline.
The image becomes a fragile miracle.

Pool of Dreams, MysterioVision x Noonenoise
A phenomenology of the impossible
The figures are not ghosts: they drip, cast shadows, leave marks on the floor.
They are not alive: yet they breathe through color.
They inhabit the threshold between existence and memory, born from a psychological gesture of extraordinary intensity, the fantasy that death is not an end, but a soft passage.
This liminality is never morbid. It is, in fact, tender.
There is modesty within the monumental scale, quietness in the gestures, and a vulnerability that transforms eroticism into a language of trauma. The body is naked, but not exposed; it is vulnerable, suspended between the need to be remembered and the fear of dissolving.
Architecture as a sanctuary for memory
MysterioVision, with the precision of an architect attuned to the symbolic power of space, constructs environments resembling modern altars.
Pools, terraces, corridors, glass walls that hold the mountains in place: these are not settings, but emotional chambers. Places where time has paused a fraction of a second before tragedy takes full hold.
Rooms that whisper: stay. If you must leave, wait a little longer.
In this context, the female figure becomes an apparition, too large to contain, too alive to be dead.
Her return is not divine intervention but an aesthetic manifestation of emotional defiance.

The spirit in backyard, MysterioVision x Noonenoise
The gentle heresy of refusal
This is, ultimately, the heart of the collection:
a gentle heresy against the principle of reality.
A refusal to accept death as a final event.
A visual articulation of a universal, unspoken wish:
If I could, I would bring you back, even just for an hour, even just in a dream.
Many artists depict absence.
Noonenoise and MysterioVision depict what happens immediately after: the emotional counterfeit of loss, the fantasy of continuity, the crack through which someone returns who should no longer be here.
A collection that speaks to our era
In an age shaped by avatars, deepfakes, and digital reincarnations, this series becomes a profound commentary on our desire to hold onto what inevitably slips away. It shows how grief uses images to survive, how longing finds refuge in fiction, how love, especially desperate love, clings to any form that allows it to persist.
The Spirit That Remains is not here to reassure.
It is not here to console.
It reveals the wound we all carry, but also the scandalous beauty of a dream that refuses to die.
In the liquid figure rising from the pool, in the gigantic woman curled into a room too small to contain her, we find a metaphor for our time:
the human who refuses to vanish,
the image that becomes a second life,
the desire that insists, stubbornly, on transforming itself into hope.
And within that hope, delicate as a water surface, lies the collection’s most luminous truth.

The Spirit of Yesterday, MysterioVision x Noonenoise
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