This month’s Cover Story features “Prie-Dieu (exhaust)” (2026), a sculpture that was part of Mónica Mays’s exhibition “Pulgar” (Thumb) at Matadero Madrid’s Nave 0 earlier this year. A review of the exhibition by Latitudes’s Max Andrews appears in the Summer issue of Artforum.

“The exhibition as a whole cultivated its analogies with Madrid’s wider spatial and social imaginaries, invoking both a flea market and the Catholic church, with their interlaced codes of salvage and salvation. … Sculptures were installed throughout the space like grim statuary, embodying a logic of butchery and grafting in their evocation of sacred relics and the broken human animal.” Read the full review here.