May 29th – June 24th, 2025<\/p>\n
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\u2019s biblical encounter with an \u201caltar to the unknown god\u201d, the works reflect a contemporary yearning for the sacred in a secular age. Each piece becomes a provisional altar \u2014 inviting interreligious dialogue and offering space for mystery, memory, doubt, and belief to coexist.<\/p>\n
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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 \u201cTo the unknown god.\u201d Paul\u2019s response \u2014 to speak into the space between ignorance and revelation \u2014 becomes a metaphor for this exhibition\u2019s central concern: the longing for spiritual meaning in an increasingly secular age.<\/p>\n
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 \u2014 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 \u2014 a constructed offering shaped by gesture, labor, and the pull of the ineffable.<\/p>\n
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 \u2014 a contemporary altar \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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