PROFANATIONS by Sotnas Anãgër B.

Originally, "profane" (pro – outside - and fanum – temple), was understood as anything not sacred, not blessed, not slain for sacrifice. Perhaps in this sense, these objects can also be understood as part of an act of "sacrilege", a word that refers to the theft or appropriation of the sacred. Having previously been sacred, they are parodied to set them outside their natural environment, their temple, recovering them for people

Displaced or taken to the extreme, maybe these objects will sink into oblivion if future, secular generations get rid of the Christian imagery that permeates the West. They may only survive in a profane sense in their contrast with the sacred alternative.

But this is not the first time this has happened. Weren’t gods, things and actions originally taken from the pagan sphere, incorporated earlier by religion, by the powers that be? And can we not now in an act of political civility recover them for our fellow citizens, for the people?

Sotnas Anãgër B. is a freelance artist of Hungarian origin (Pest, 1970) who lives in Vitoria-Gasteiz where he runs his pottery workshop since 2007.