From holy relics to plastic beaded crosses, Nikolskaya's survey of Coptic Christian imagery reckons with religious practices in a capitalist age From 2006 to 2023, Russian Swedish photographer Xenia Nikolskaya (born 1973) traveled across Egypt documenting Coptic artifacts and church spaces. These images underscore the profound connection between Coptic believers and their historic traditions, but also to the changes they are undergoing in light of today's mass consumerist culture.