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 among the Saint, the Countess and the Abbess, turning habit, ritual, and the ecclesial gaze back against the Church that produced them. Grounded in feminist critique and informed by Bataille’s theory of excess, while haunted by Story of the Eye, the series attacks the Church’s dogmas, hypocrisies, and denial of embodiment. Shot on black-and-white film and hand-coloured, each frame becomes both portrait and provocation: sacred and profane fused rather than opposed. The Saint’s holiness is not negated by bodily exposure, but disclosed through it; what appears as vulnerability or mere flesh becomes the medium through which inner coherence remains visible. The figures remain human and specific, not anonymous symbols, and their fearless pleasure, desire, and visibility expose what the Church most struggles to admit — that flesh is not the opposite of meaning, but one of its conditions.

Konica Autoreflex T4, 35mm.