Naked, Anonymous, Unapologetic: Women Reclaim Sacred Space Through Art

A provocative body-paint and photographic art series called The Sacred Series has been released. This controversial but striking series of images merges the female form into sacred religious architecture — confronting how power and “holiness” have historically been used to police women’s visibility.

Created by The Sacred Series Studio, women were painted into the walls of their own holy spaces. Jews, Christians, and ex-Muslims stood with the oppressed women of the world by being merged into mosques, churches, and synagogues.

The art series is asking a direct question: What is truly sacred — the lifeless walls, or the living bodies and souls those walls claim to serve?

The women, although bare, are powerful — dressed in sensual ornate, religious settings. Their anonymity is deliberate: they are not portraits of individuals, but universal stand-ins for women who have been erased, sexualized, controlled, and treated as collateral within socio-political systems.

Scarves and veils appear as paradoxes — both protection and satire. They act as a shield of anonymity, while echoing the uncomfortable historical truth: women have often been framed as dangerous for simply existing in sensual authority, in a world that has enabled men to steal, rape, and pillage.

Woman, Life, Freedom

This is what happens when a population refuses to let the female body become the state’s proof of power.

Iran is on fire, and this series stands with Persians in their plight for freedom — a visible flare of a global pattern: when power feels threatened, women are the first people oppressed.

Across the world, oppression takes many forms: domestic violence behind closed doors, coercive control disguised as “tradition,” sexual violence in conflict zones, trafficking, harassment, and laws policing women’s clothing, movement, and voice.

Different cultures.
Different justifications.
The same underlying logic: Reduce women’s autonomy to maintain control.

The Sacred Series: Women, Life, Freedom meets that moment not as distant commentary, but as visual insistence: dignity cannot be legislated away.

Redefining the Sacred

Religious institutions have historically segregated women, often restricting their presence, voice, visibility, and authority.

This series reclaims sacred spaces by placing women at the center — not as symbols of temptation or shame, but as vessels of life and creation.

The figures represent all women who:

• Have suffered under patriarchal dominion

• Have had their sexuality silenced or weaponized

• Have been erased from history and denied a voice

• Have been treated as secondary or disposable within socio-political systems

In doing so, the series reintegrates the sacred feminine into the symbolic language of the divine — not through ideology, but through sheer BEAUTY.

A Historical Reflection

The series also points toward a long historical arc: a shift from goddess-centered worship to male-dominated pantheons in the ancient Near East — a transition that reshaped institutions, law, and women’s autonomy.

The Sacred Series calls for the restoration of balance — not as nostalgia, but as correction.

Contact Information

For media inquiries, exhibition opportunities, interview requests, or PR pack access:

Lily — Media & PR
lily@thesacredseries.art
www.thesacredseries.art

PR pack available upon request.

Disclaimer:

This series is presented as an artistic work engaging with global themes of women’s rights, bodily autonomy, and the intersection of politics, religion, and power. References to current events are included for cultural context and public interest, without affiliation to any political organization or agenda.