Carlota Guerrero’s Sensual Debut Photobook, A Visual Homage To Women Everywhere

In 2019, just before the pandemic wreaked havoc on the world, Guerrero premiered her performance piece El Beso (The Kiss) at Art Basel Miami, for the Spanish fashion brand Desigual. It included 30 performers dancing, touching one another, kissing, and removing their garments, until they became one pile of naked bodies, eliciting the theatrics of what Guererro wanted to be a “huge orgy, because, why not?”. The piece came about because the photographer said she had looked back on her earlier work and had realized that she had been unintentionally portraying women as virginal. Speaking to Itsnicethat, Guerrero says: “Women are ethereal, but they’re also super sexual. And both things are equally respectable,” she explains. “I’m not trying to be controversial or polemic, I’m just trying to portray the beauty and the dignity of women being hypersexual, without having to be apologetic.”