Austin Alphonse's debut solo exhibition at Galerie Russi Klenner takes its title from a pivotal moment in John Milton's Paradise Lost, in which Lucifer rallies a third of Heaven's angels into rebellion, only to be cast into the depths of hell. Milton's enduring provocation lies not in the fall itself, but in its psychology: his devil is a figure of interior conflict, self-deception, and tragic rationalization, whose defiant declaration "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven" speaks less to defiance than to the humanly impulse to reframe loss as agency. Alphonse's figures inhabit a similarly unstable moral terrain, shaped by broken systems, confused identities, blind loyalty, and false idols, moving through complex landscapes in search of belonging.