Saintly Cadavers

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

Stations of a Blessed Sacrilege (1991) is an unflinching meditation on exposure, power, and faith. Staged around a young chaplain (“the Saint”) and two figures—the Countess and the Abbess—the series explores how institutional authority can consecrate bodies as objects of veneration while simultaneously policing desire. Yet its centre is disarmingly quiet: the Saint’s presence is unperformed, without guile, offered with a transparency that feels both serene and dangerous. Hand-coloured on black-and-white film, the photographs take on a waxen, reliquary sheen—an inversion of incorruptibility, the holy laid bare—collapsing the distance between veneration and desecration. What remains is less shock than encounter: a tense dialogue between exposure and witness, where faith, desire, and the impossibility of detachment converge. Shot on a Konica Autoreflex T4 35mm film SLR.