Faith Wrestlers

Faith Wrestlers presents three sculptures derived from individual 3D body scans, digitally fused and materially realized through 3D printing. Locked in gestures that oscillate between struggle, restraint, and embrace, the figures collapse distinctions between domination and surrender, force and intimacy.

The work draws on visual traditions spanning Christian iconography, classical sculpture, and contemporary digital imaging. Echoes of Michelangelo’s monumental theology of the male body intersect with the eroticized martyrdom of Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane, exposing the unstable boundary between devotion, discipline, and desire. Flesh appears simultaneously idealized, fragmented, and computationally reconstructed.

Elevated on baroque-inspired yet antiseptically white pedestals, the sculptures become objects of ritualized observation. Faith Wrestlers stages masculinity not as stable identity, but as a choreographed system of power, repression, and projection in which authority remains inseparable from the desires it attempts to regulate.