In this piece, Pope Francis is abducted by a spaceship while tenderly holding an alien in red shorts. The scene parodies his famous statement: “We are prepared to baptize
extraterrestrials,” turning dogma into pop spectacle. Surrounded by figures like E.T., Marvin the Martian, Astro Boy, and Baby Yoda, the Pope becomes an intergalactic shepherd, while aliens are canonized into a kitschy, multicolored saintly pantheon.
The work blends humor, critique, and media devotion, questioning the boundaries between faith, fiction, and mass culture. Abducted not only comments on the Pope’s physical departure, but celebrates his symbolic transition into a universe where the sacred and the absurd coexist under the same tractor beam.
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