The Martyrdom

Ana Mazzei’s artworks are fragments of myth, memory, and fiction. Inspired by Legend and Martyrdom of Saint Quentin, a 16th-century painting from M's collection depicting a gruesome torture scene, she created four new sculptures that act as both actor and scenography: The Call, Persecution, Resistance en Memory. The stations are activated by performers in a rhythm of effort and surrender. The collision between body and object, stillness and motion, echoes the spiritual and physical tension of the original painting, where Saint Quentin withstands violence with an elevated gaze and an expression of ecstatic transcendence.