“Surrender and Exposure” (1991) The original black-and-white gallery curated by Nora Geist in 1991, comprised a stark, streamlined sequence of images drawn from the same October 1991 shoot later recoloured as “Saintly Cadavers”. Without its later lurid palette and erotic embellishments, the gallery focused instead on the austere interplay of flesh, cloth, and ritual gesture—offering a raw, almost liturgical intensity. With fewer outtakes and tighter framing, The Blessed Sacrilege invited viewers to contemplate the threshold between sanctity and desecration, long before the images were recontextualised as performative spectacle.
