Installation made of biological material (one ovule, blood, water), brass, glass, LEDs, and arduino

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In this installation, Arantxa Araujo references the monstrance, which, in Roman Catholic churches, holds the consecrated Eucharist. Instead of displaying the Host of perhaps a holy relic, the installation holds one of the artist's unfertilized ovules, posing questions about their queer body, the right to love, and whom to love, and about life itself. These questions reflect on sexuality, fertility, and economics in a capitalist-dominated world that deems some bodies more valuable than others based on race, place of birth, gender, and sexuality. Furthermore, "Mi Cuerpa rethinks the symbol of the cross as a "female" symbol, which denotes feminine genders and identities, to ponder the tensional narrative between debasement and glorification on which the female body has been constructed in patriarchal religions. 

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Photos by Bryson Rand and Arantxa Araujo

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