Exhibition design for Perspektivet Museum on the variety of  religions in contemporary Tromsø.

Throughout history it has been claimed that human beings have an inherent ability to have religious experiences, and that this also applies to modern individuals. In the exhibition we meet people who, in different ways, practice their faith and contribute to shaping the city with their holy places, rituals and gatherings. This is not a matter of religion such as we find explained in textbooks, but religiosity as experience, and as ideas that cannot be fully understood.

The exhibition Homo Religiosus is about the spiritual world and the quest for meaning and coherence in life. This is a dimension that art installations and music can help mediate. In art, the existential and religious dimension comes to expression as a type of insight that transcends dispassionate, reason-based knowledge. Perhaps the art can be viewed as a window facing inwards, while the exhibition’s documentary materials offer a new lens through which to see the city of Tromsø.

Library  with books of different religions. The books were made of sand and disintegrated very slowly over a period of 6 years untill they would eventually become one.