Donna Ferrato’s exhibition Holy explores the female body as an intimate, sacred and also political space.

After decades of documenting gender-based violence, patriarchal power structures and intimacy as a space of conflict, the author reclaims the body as a place of strength, autonomy and presence. The series challenges traditional ideas of holiness, often linked to submission and silence, and focuses on desire, vulnerability and resistance. Far from embellishing trauma, her images draw from personal experience to construct a powerful visual statement. Holy posits two issues: who defines what is sacred, and how. This is how it puts forward a spirituality rooted in lived experience, freedom and everyday life.