Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer — Alessandra Sanguinetti, 2020

Over two decades in rural Argentina, Alessandra Sanguinetti traced the growing lives of Guille and Belinda — two cousins she met as girls and photographed into womanhood. The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer is the second and most expansive volume of that ongoing chronicle. Here, MACK gathers these photographs into a linen-bound book that feels both tender and immense, like the lives it holds. From childhood playacting to motherhood, this is a document of time passing — of the camera becoming less observer than companion. Sanguinetti’s lens is lyrical but never sentimental, attentive to how girls learn to perform themselves, and then outgrow the stage. Each image moves between revelation and routine, steeped in the dusty light of the Pampas, in a world where nothing is epic except the quiet fact of staying. Guille and Belinda don’t just grow up — they shift shape, as we all do — and Sanguinetti adjusts with them, not with control but with care. If the first volume imagined girlhood as myth, this one listens as the myth breaks open, letting complexity and adulthood enter. It is one of the most quietly radical long-term collaborations in contemporary photography, and this book is its luminous centrepiece.

Technical Sheet
Title: Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer
Artist / Author: Alessandra Sanguinetti
Date: 2020 (First edition, second printing)
Publisher: MACK
ISBN: 978-1-912339-97-6
Medium / Format: Embossed silk linen hardcover with tipped-in image
Pages: 144
Language: English
Weight: 1314 g
Condition: NEW