Nika Nesgoda

[5][3] In 2018, Time magazine published the series[2] and revealed that the model in her photograph, Annuntiatio[1] which pays homage to the 1333 Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi's Annunciation portrays the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels as the Virgin Mary.

[6] According to Artnet News, Nesgoda "sought to combine Christian iconography with contemporary pornography to draw attention to the fact that, from a certain perspective, both represented reductive, misogynistic views of women".

[7] In a 2019 interview with Musée Magazine, the artist stated that "[t]he moment the idea came to me of placing adult film stars into the role of the Virgin Mary, was when I asked myself, 'who is actually worthy of being worshiped?

[10] Nesgoda told Vice News[11] that her work is meant to be a study of the role of women in church-commissioned art.

[10] Nesgoda spent much of her earlier artistic life focused on portraiture, her current work is devoted to "landscapes in tiny objects, change, and texture.

Nika Nesgoda at the art opening of Virgin in Southampton