Screen print with chocolate syrup on altar bread,
75” x 45” x 78” , 2025
Me Cago en la Hostia is an installation that combines screen printing with chocolate syrup on altar bread, each piece bearing the word "no." This piece challenges the deeply ingrained notion of inherent guilt imposed on women, a concept that has been historically perpetuated by institutions like the Catholic Church. In Catholicism, the consumption of altar bread is ritualized as a pure act, meant to be done “free of sins.” By using the word “no.” I aim to reject this idea in a straight-forward ironic and almost erotic way since I modified the altar bread and did not exactly follow the ritual.
The installation is composed of six photographs: three close-up images of my lips, with the altar bread placed in front of me, and three of a “priest” cutting the bread into four. In all of these photographs, the priest’s hands are deliberately visible, emphasizing the male authority that governs the sacrament and, by extension, the concept of sin. The hands, as symbols of both control and power, are a direct link to the historical role of the priesthood in dictating moral codes, particularly regarding women’s bodies and actions.