The Chapel is part of a work-in-progress where I play with themes that could be taboo for some people or some sectors in our society.

The project is based on reflections and provocations while mixing images or objects with opposite connotations. It has been constructed in different modules using a variety of mediums. Some Taboo-Modules go from NetArt pieces to photographs, video clips or installations.

Our biggest taboos are religion, sex, death, and power.  All four are always connected to each other and deeply influence each other. The Chapel presents a little girl absorbed in a natural but disgusting act, an old woman enjoying a lollypop while she look fixedly, a mysterious person drowned in a world of dark sexual pleasures (fetishism) and some objects of pleasure and pain.  All of that is inside of what could be a sacred chapel, a place for silence, a place for reflection.

Isn't this the perfect scenario to provoke morbid connections between pleasure and pain?  Yes, you know we all have some guilty pleasures...

Be in silence while you enjoy the act.

Carmen Olmo-Terrasa