The Irish artist Abigail O’Brien explores in her work the role of rituals, rites and dogma in people’s lives. She developed a series of works on the seven sacraments: baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, confession, anointing of the sick, ordination and marriage. They stand for the important passages in a person’s life and thus also for the balance between the earthly, everyday and the spiritual, religious. The cycle consists of photographs, sculptures and everyday objects. O’Brien stages everyday scenes that seem isolated and brought to a standstill with an icy gaze; in these moments of concentrated pause, everyday life around the household and children acquires the aura of a ritual.