Jesus Will Save You, Artist Book, 2025 - Arnold Barretto
“Jesus will save you.”2025 by Arnold Barretto is a personal and palpable exploration of the self in relation to home, religion, and family. This accordion book follows two narratives running on both sides, each narrative with its distinct interplay of photography and poetic text. Music encapsulates and encases these stories, with the book enclosed in a cassette cover, and music viscerally underscoring the interlinking of grief and transformation.
Barretto’s photographic style, in both color (Side A) and black and white (Side B), possesses a salvation of love that prevails with and in spite of a coming forth/expansion that never reaches an apex.
This limited 100 edition run is the merging of Arnold's ongoing exploration of bookmaking and photography.
