Saintly Cadavers

by Nora Geist :: You need to be a member to contact artists →Join :: Portfolio

“Stations of a Blessed Sacrilege” (1991) stages a choreographed confrontation amongst the Saint, the Countess and the Abbess—who weaponise habit, ritual gaze. Grounded in feminist critique and Bataille’s theory of excess, and haunted by “The Story of the Eye”, the series honours faith while exposing how ecclesial power eroticises, disciplines, and displays the body. Shot on black-and-white film and hand-coloured, each frame becomes both portrait and provocation: sacred and profane fused, not opposed. The body is treated as artefact—observed, archived, and returned to—where identity remains human and specific, not anonymous and holy.

Konica Autoreflex T4, 35mm