May 29th – June 24th, 2025
An interdisciplinary exhibition exploring spiritual identity in 21st-century Western culture through the layering of abstract paintings, sculptures, carpentry, and found objects. Drawing on the Apostle Paul’s biblical encounter with an “altar to the unknown god”, the works reflect a contemporary yearning for the sacred in a secular age. Each piece becomes a provisional altar — inviting interreligious dialogue and offering space for mystery, memory, doubt, and belief to coexist.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Altar to the Unknown God takes its title from the Apostle Paul’s encounter in the biblical book of Acts, where he discovers an altar inscribed “To the unknown god.” Paul’s response — to speak into the space between ignorance and revelation — becomes a metaphor for this exhibition’s central concern: the longing for spiritual meaning in an increasingly secular age.
This interdisciplinary exhibition brings together large abstract paintings, sculptures, carpentry-based forms, found objects, and the mixed media application of layers. The diversity of materials and processes reflects the multiplicity of spiritual experience itself — fragmented, embodied, and often improvised. Just as belief takes shape through layered histories, cultural inheritances, and personal encounters, so too these works are built through accumulation, tension, and transformation. Each piece becomes a provisional altar — a constructed offering shaped by gesture, labor, and the pull of the ineffable.
In a time when institutional religion is often in decline and spiritual narratives are fractured or hidden, these artworks offer a space of symbolic assembly — a contemporary altar — where doubt, belief, memory, and mystery coexist. By drawing from diverse faith vocabularies and aesthetic languages, the exhibition encourages interreligious dialogue and reimagines art as a site for spiritual inquiry and renewal.