Maria Huilt
- We do not need to return to the “old” to find comfort and safety, but we can still be grateful. -
Maria Huilt explores the quiet places where old religious figures have lost their meaning and presence. These nearly forgotten statues, once carriers of hope and comfort, now stand in a state of erosion and stillness. Their surfaces crack, their colors fade, and their symbolic power has slipped away from collective memory.
In this project, the sense of solace that once surrounded these figures is passed on to flowers. The flowers take over the role the deities can no longer fulfill. Their fragility, their brief existence, and their ability to bloom even in decline create a new space for consolation. They become the vessels through which the viewer can still encounter gentleness, gratitude, and a moment of inner quiet.
Maria Huilt reveals how beauty and comfort can persist even when their original forms have been forgotten. In the meeting between worn statues and delicate flowers, a new kind of devotion emerges, one rooted not in doctrine but in presence, decay, and renewal.
