May analysis

In our May newsletter edition, we delve into a work by Alba Sagols that explores the contemporary body through the dimension of the sacred.

Through this striking piece, the artist examines our rituals of belief, our relationship to the body, and what it means to sanctify an absent being. Inspired by nail trees from both pagan and Christian traditions, Fuzzy Preacher summons the memory of a vanished body—covered in lead, pierced by repeated gestures.

The analysis revisits the symbolic and material dimensions of the sculpture—its marked surface, its heavy silence, its whispered 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 anew.