Pay to Win

A porcelain Madonna from Lourdes, head replaced by a speaker cone, stands before a wooden offertory box. Each coin dropped triggers the unmistakable chime of Super Mario's reward system — sanctity collapsing into gamification.

The work splices Catholic ritual with gamer economies, exposing how belief and transcendence are re-coded into transactional logics. Where once the faithful sought salvation through prayer, here grace is reduced to the mechanics of micro-transactions — currency as conduit, faith as feedback loop.

Pay to Win stages the collapse of the sacred into the monetized and the ludic, asking whether spiritual experience survives in a culture where even revelation sounds like a game reward.