Saint Seb (2025)

This work revisits the image of Saint Sebastian not only as a Christian martyr, but as an enduring symbol of beauty, resistance, and transcendence.

What interests me in this figure is the tension between violence and serenity. His body is pierced by arrows, yet his face remains suspended in another dimension between pain, tenderness, and revelation. In many historical representations, Sebastian appears with a delicate, almost androgynous beauty, where the sacred and the sensual coexist without contradiction.

In my interpretation, that gesture is brought into the present. His gaze turned toward the light suggests hope, but also conviction: the intimate certainty that something exists beyond the violence imposed upon the body. The arrows are no longer only signs of religious martyrdom, but also echoes of the aggression directed toward those who live at the margins, especially queer, sensitive, and historically persecuted bodies.

Over time, Saint Sebastian was also embraced as a central figure within the gay imagination, precisely because he brings together eroticism, vulnerability, and resistance. In this sense, the work understands the wounded body not as an image of defeat, but of endurance.

In Saint Seb, I find a way to unite faith and desire, tenderness and strength, persecution and radiance, transforming the pierced body into a luminous presence.