Contemporary Concerns

Protect us from Climate Change, 2017, mixed media.

This ongoing project explores the dynamic by which myth is created in a post-factual society, the subjectivity of all kinds of faith and the power of belief in the struggle for values.  

Saint patronages are plentiful and sometimes quite odd (e.g. television, flight attendants, barbecue cooks*). Saint patronages are also a loophole in the Catholic structure, a blurry space for partial “democracy” where the number of prayers counts almost as votes in deciding who gets prayed for what.

Some of these Saints are patrons to very contemporary concerns and had little to no iconography until now: protesters, feminists, climate change, discrimination, hackers, etc. Some other Saints might not be saint yet, but could easily mix in with the system.

*Saint Clare, who had a live vision of the Pope in Rome from her bed in Bologna; Saint Bona, whose bed was lifted by angels from Pisa to France; Saint Lawrence, burned alive on a grate.