SANTA MARIA

Wine and Buns
108.5 × 43 cm, 2020

A lace bodysuit placed over a late Baroque IHS devotional panel: Eucharistic symbols, sacred opulence and female-coded corporeality enter into a fragile and ambivalent shift.

Situated between devotion and desire, veneration and suspicion, the work examines how female bodies are inscribed into religious visual orders. Within such systems of representation, the female body appears not simply as an image, but as a projection surface: idealized, sexualized, controlled and morally charged at the same time.

By bringing together the ornamental language of Catholic devotion and an intimate, bodily garment, the work opens up a field of tension between sacred image, object and body. It asks how religious imagery has shaped the perception of femininity, purity, transgression and desire — and how these codes continue to resonate in contemporary visual culture.

Shown in the group exhibition:
SANTA MARIA
Redaktion, Himmelrichstrasse 4, Lucerne
May 17 – June 6, 2026
Opening: Saturday, May 16, 4–10 pm
Curated by Stephan Wittmer and Simon Kindle