The Promise

This work explores the figure of Saint Lazarus through the everyday experience of faith in a context of hardship—not as an idealized devotion, but as a burden and an act of endurance. The depicted body appears exhausted, sustained more by necessity than by hope.

I use the cooking pot to place the sacred within the domestic sphere, where spirituality is lived as a means of survival. The figure drawn with lines does not represent a specific character, but rather an invisible social and symbolic presence superimposed upon the individual, reinforcing the tension between the physical and the intangible.