Belongs to Joe

Belongs to Joe' is a photographic essay, compiled as set of notes on Lars von Trier's film script for 'Nymphomaniac'. The script's elemental material draws from varied sources: Proust's 'In search of lost time', Fibonacci numbers, Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler, and Bach's principles of composition material woven in a continuous chain of associations embracing ecclesiastical history, sadism, fascism, pyrotechnics and botany. Photographer Casper Sejersen unravels the many layers of the script, working alongside Danish art historian Cecilie H�gsbro, who chose narrative objects which allude to a carefully constructed visual history of eroticism. The notes and facts this book presents have been sampled and sometimes ritually collated in patterns forming small analyses. They form a private book of solace, collected by the protagonist herself ; a personal collection of discovered meaningfullness, a herbarium without a title, though simply inscribed: 'Belongs to Jo