Monosodium Glutamate, a series of staged large format photographs inspired by Baroque Spanish religious painting, represents the unfulfillment of the neoliberal promise – the collapse of the idea of a capitalist paradise and the decline of its centuries-old, uncontested patriarchal ruling class. Here, the body language that conveyed a mystical experience in classical paintings mutates into the silent screams or desperate mating calls of anonymous, isolated men trapped in a mundane hell, deprived of any spirituality.