Wish You Were Here series, 2008

Wish You Were Here (2008) is an early and pivotal work in Sam Jedig’s Mask Series, where themes of identity, censorship, desire, and spiritual authority converge. The series is based on religious book illustrations – mostly from 19th-century devotional prints – over which Jedig has layered photographs of female figures and masked them in solid black.

The women are posed in classic pin-up or fashion poses, yet they are simultaneously hidden and erased, bound into a biblical narrative not their own. The series examines the body as a site of control and resistance – a place where visibility becomes political.

By intervening in these pious scenes, Wish You Were Here draws attention to the moral codes embedded in both religious and secular imagery, turning the illustrated sermons into spaces of tension, contradiction, and visual rupture.

Masked female figure, Wish You Were Here, Sam Jedig, 2008.

Selected works from Sam Jedig’s Wish You Were Here (2008). Each piece combines 19th-century devotional prints with photographic images of women, overpainted with black masks. The masked figures highlight the tensions between religious morality, female visibility, and cultural censorship.

See more works from Sam Jedig’s ongoing Mask Series exploring identity, visibility, and transformation.

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