Pieta, 160*110*175 mm, PLA, 3d printed 

This work brings together two powerful symbolic fields that were historically never meant to coexist. The Buddha - a figure of detachment, the cessation of suffering, and the renunciation of bodily attachment - is placed in a pose that directly references the Christian Pietà, where physical suffering, sacrifice, and death are central.

The controversy emerges from the collision of stillness and loss: nirvana confronts grief, impersonal compassion meets deeply personal pain. Care here ceases to be a source of solace and becomes a burden, while a spiritual figure is forced to "hold" what its own philosophy urges one to release. The work questions the universality of religious imagery and reveals how symbols, once removed from their original contexts, begin to speak about a contemporary crisis of care, responsibility, and the impossibility of distancing oneself from the suffering of others.