WORKS

Holy Trinity (2018)

installation, 1200 x 1000 x 400 mm; mixed media; holy water, plastic jerry canes, wood, acrylic paint

‘Holy Trinity’ is a sculpture that appropriates the religious collectible as a readymade, displayed on an

alter-shaped plinth.

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As an un-precedented powerful merchandise, it combines bottomless belief and the fetish of the commodity, but is

for the believer a true incarnation of the holy, independent from its profane mass-produced vessel.

It challenges the idea of the aura, often associated to the uniqueness of the collected object, here it seems to retain

that quality.

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But, it also questions the role of the display in the sacralisation of the items, and how we perceive and construct the

notion of authenticity.

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In this work, the assumptions brought forth by the viewer became even more relevant; the impossibility of avoiding

our own context was significantly apparent in the audience’s varied feedback.