Bettina Rheims photographs the carnality of the divine
The figure and the message of Christ sink roots in two millennia of human history, and they have marked, for better or for worse, the social and political evolution, at least in Europe and in the American Continent, with an indirect repercussion on the rest of the world as well. A message that Bettina Rheims (Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1952) reinterprets in a strong carnal tone, meaning that her figures of Christ and the Virgin leave the hieratic and mystique aura to become individuals of contemporary society, bearing within aspirations and problems. The photographs of Rheims do not constitute a religious exhibit, they are actually a reflection of the philosophical tones that, in her civil accent, succeeds in making the figure of Christ a metaphor of contemporary men.
