The piece is articulated as a device of tension between the sacred and the violent, between the idealized image and the rawness of the narrative.
The black frame functions as a structure of containment: it delimits, frames, imposes order. Inside, the figure of the angel —a black-and-white photographic cutout of classical appearance— evokes an iconography of purity, protection, or transcendence. However, its position is not ascending but supported on an unstable, almost precarious fragment. There is no flight; there is suspension.
Behind and beneath it, the wood pierced by rusted nails introduces a dimension of aggression and pain. The nails hang, threaten, weigh down. They are not fastening; they are dangling, as if the structure itself were about to give way. The oxidation speaks of time, of deterioration, of accumulated memory.
The embedded text —with an explicit description of violence— erupts as a raw narrative within an apparently devotional scene. That sentence acts as a semantic trigger: it dismantles any romantic reading of the angel. The celestial is no longer refuge but a brutal contrast to earthly brutality.
Formally, the work is constructed through opposition:
Black / white
Protection / wound
Elevation / fall
Narrative / image
Conceptually, it seems to pose a question:
What place does the symbolic occupy when violence is structural?
Can religious or moral imagery sustain itself upon a reality pierced by nails?
The piece does not seek reconciliation. Rather, it points to the fracture between discourse and experience, between the promise of salvation and the materiality of harm.

















































