More than twenty years of visual research across Spain and Portugal underpin this project on the iconography of the sacred on the Iberian Peninsula, as seen through its ritual representations – those moments when the community collectively escapes from the everyday into the sacred.

Here, the pagan heritage intertwines with the Catholic tradition in a dialogue that is often strange and contradictory.

The rituals photographed, whilst rooted in ancestral traditions, reveal an unusual aspect in their contemporary adaptation, and this intersection between the spiritual and its public representation confronts the viewer with the complexity of cultural identity, revealing hidden narratives that continue to link the present with a past that still influences it.