“We Can’t Make You Younger is a collaboration between the Belgian, Mexico-City-based writer Benoît Loiseau and the Mexican, Mexico City-based artist Manuel Solano. The collaboration consists of three short stories written by Loiseau, which Solano has illustrated. Simply and directly written, the stories deal with fundamental issues, including loss, sexuality, romantic attachment an so-called spirituality.

At once timely and timeless, they contain a measured dose of references to popular culture. They are spare, understated and moving. At first blush, their general restraint might seem to be an odd counterpart for Solano’s messy and expressive finger painting, but as you work your way through the stories and encounter precisely which points he decides to illustrate—repeating a phrase from the text seemingly plucked at random: a song lyric or the title of a book—the collaboration coheres with surprising and touching harmony, not to mention humour.”

— Christ Sharp