In our May newsletter, we explore a work by Alba Sagols that examines the contemporary body through the lens of the sacred.

Through this striking piece, the artist questions our rituals of belief, our relationship to the body, and what it means to consecrate a living being in its absence. Drawing on nail trees from both pagan and Christian traditions, Fuzzy Preacher summons the memory of a vanished body, sheathed in lead and pierced by repeated gestures.

The analysis returns to the symbolic and material dimensions of the sculpture – its scored surface, its heavy silence, its murmured voice – to reveal the tensions between spirituality, violence and compassion.

Caught between the toxicity of lead and the gentleness of a mantra, the work compels us to look differently.