Heresy

Heresy is a photographic triptych that reinterprets three foundational narratives from the Christian tradition—creation, temptation, and crucifixion—to examine how religious imagery has shaped cultural understandings of gender, authority, and moral responsibility within anglophone societies.

Drawing on canonical paintings such as Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam and Titian’s Crucifixion, the series subverts familiar iconography through staged and digitally composited photography. Traditional gender roles are inverted: the figures of God and Adam appear female, Eve becomes the one tempted, and the crucified Christ appears as a woman.

Through images that feel simultaneously recognisable and unsettling, the work creates moments of estrangement that echo the uncanny quality of familiar cultural myths seen anew. By reconfiguring these enduring visual narratives, Heresy invites viewers to reconsider the cultural assumptions embedded within religious narratives and their continuing influence on contemporary understandings of gender, identity, and authority.