Sacrilegio.

Many forms of happiness, love or freedom take place in the sin. This is tragic when sin casted you out from Paradise , but falling from heaven is a beginning on earth, beginning of a spiritual journey beyond perfection.

My name is Alberto de Jesús, I am 24 years old Mexican photographer. This is Sacrilegio: an ongoing project that i have been workin on since the end of the 2023. In this project I explore my perspective of the relationship between people and sin, in a society where we construct our meanings as moral subjects.

Sacrilegio: Sin is tragic when it casted you out from Paradise, but falling from Heaven is a beginning on Earth, a beginning of a spiritual journey beyond perfection. We are inevitably sacrilegious because of that volitional tendency to fail the sacred, and by abandoning the single point of Good, we are thrown into a world of nuances. We recognize goodness for we have been in touch with evil, we are able to make room for happiness because we have tasted misery, we suffer punishment for the choices we made voluntarily, and we recognize ourselves as corrupt and worthy of love at the same time.

Mortal Beings: The cult of the wounds of Christ represents the veneration of the most human dimension of Jesus Christ the Almighty. He offered his life and in doing so, had to manifest himself incarnate. This is the epitome of sacrilegious; going from the Divine to the worldly in the name of Humanity. This is followed by his resurrection, which brings life for all and the ability to finally see with new eyes the fear of the sacrilegious, which often turns into guilt and blinds us to the point of not recognizing who we are.

Revelation: Like God, we should groom our vulnerability and show it to divine and mortal entities. In this sense, sin also goes beyond good or bad.

Finally, I should say that Sacrilegio is not an apology for any religion nor an expression of contemporary theocentrism . Although the inspiration comes from my experience as a queer person raised strongly Catholic in a rural area of ​​Mexico, in this work I question the meaning of sin and devotion, beyond moral definitions through self-portraits and photos from a quotidian reinterpretation of fiction from certain Christian sacramental passages.