Seiko Grabner, 1200mg, 2015

The artist has produced three aluminum pills coated in bronze, silver and gold. The pills are placed on the two side altars and the main high altar directly in front of the tabernacle. Through their placement on the altar, a natural association could be made between modern medicine and the Eucharist. The Eucharist was recently described by Pope Francis as “medicine for the sick” and in a sense this work is a reflection on both the sacred host as medicine and the pill as healing host.