Makeup and Prosthetics by Joseph Hinds
Medicology (Ongoing) examines the intersection of medicine and Judeo-Christian faith, exploring how modern society has replaced religious devotion with a secular reverence for medical authority. Drawing on Catholicism’s deep-rooted fixation on corporeality, the series medicalizes sacred iconography, reframing familiar religious imagery through a clinical, anatomical lens. Saints become surgical subjects, divine suffering is rendered through flesh and sutures, and the doctor assumes the role of a god-like figure. Through striking, corporeal compositions, Medicology dissects the ways in which medicine, like religion before it, dictates belief, ritual, and salvation.
