A thin booklet that quietly records a global choreography. Sacred Distancing gathers photographs of improvised guidance systems—tape, arrows, stickers, ribbons—laid across church interiors during the pandemic. What begins as regulation becomes image: a temporary order imposed onto spaces traditionally open, continuous, and shared.

Coers does not document crisis directly; he observes its residue. The markings drift between instruction and abstraction, between liturgical space and logistical diagram. Seen together, they form a dispersed visual language—part design, part ritual, part accident—where distance itself becomes a spatial aesthetic.

The booklet reads like a minor atlas of adjustment: how bodies are re-routed, how space is re-scripted, how even the sacred is quietly reorganised.

Details

Argobooks, 2021
48 pages, 12 × 17 cm, booklet
ISBN 978-3-948678-08-1

See also

For a broader reflection on how pandemic-era markings reshaped public and symbolic space, see this work on the visual culture of distancing and spatial control.