ALTER / ALTAR

What happens when identity becomes ritual? 
 

This exhibition brings together nine emerging artists and designers whose practices explore personal identity, transformation, ritual, and the spaces we construct together. 
 

The self is not fixed but a living altar—rearranged by gesture, memory, and desire. The artists treat identity as something performed, altered, and consecrated. Their works trace thresholds where personal history becomes shared ceremony: the repeated mark that turns into signature, the process that weaves a living statement, the room that becomes a collective stage. 
 

Transformation unfolds through ritual—small, insistent acts that rewrite the body and the spaces it inhabits. Objects hold the residue of these acts. Together the artists construct porous territories where the individual and the communal blur, revealing the ongoing liturgy of making and remaking. 
 

^{Curated by Morgan Mavis and Tibi Neuspiel}