Melting the Sacred: Cosimo Cavallaro’s “Passion of the Crust” and the Body in Transformation
In a world where art often tiptoes around discomfort, Cosimo Cavallaro has built a career on walking directly into it—barefoot, unflinching, and deeply human. His latest work, Passion of the Crust, is no exception. A life-sized chocolate sculpture of a transgender Jesus slowly melting over the course of hours, the piece is as much a performance as it is a meditation on identity, embodiment, and what remains when everything we cling to dissolves.









