The first UK exhibition of all forty Relics from a sacred forty hour rite enacted over Easter 2024. In darkness and hermetic seclusion, Saint descended into The Cave beneath their basement flat in Hawley Square, practicing quarantore and channeling creation and apparitions for the span of the forty hours in which Christ’s body also lay entombed, suspended between death and resurrection.​

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40 Hours Devotion (Cave Christ) was Saint's first foray into alternative darkrooms, the dark and solitary performance transformed the underground chalk smugglers cave into a functioning darkroom, studio and austere hermetic living space. The Cave, accessed via a trapdoor in their kitchen, had no red lighting system and only a tealight was used to expose the photographic paper. The charcoal frottages were taken from the chalky cave walls revealing heavenly figures, cryptic symbols and praying hands. The sacred performance took its inspiration from the Catholic liturgical action Quarantorre, and manifested as a durational prayer begging for the resulting forty apparitions.