Virgin

From her Irish childhood, Carol Reid-Gaillard has retained the vivid memory of an unbending Catholicism. The figure of the Virgin Mary embodies the contradictions of a demanding never satisfied moral order, which portrays a woman as the ultimate model and at the same time denigrates the female sex. Short, concise text accompanies the photography which reveals the omnipresence of images of a Virgin, by turns painful, maternal, powerful or almost childlike.