Icona Pop | Candles, printed paper | 20.5 X 8.5 cm | 2011

Well known photos of famous pop icons are used as ready-mades or transformed and edited , introducing religious iconographic elements and other features from the Christian artistic tradition. Devotional images of saints attached to the candles are scraped away and replaced by new icons that reflect the status of demi gods that stars in the entertainment industry have achieved thanks mainly to the deep devotion of their fans.