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The Chapel project explores the topic of post-religious society and tries to build a new model of relations not so much with the transcendent and distant, but rather to establish a connection between a person and the world around him and change the anthropocentric model of interaction with it. The project speculates on religious themes and cultural phenomena in general. The chapels imitate places of worship, in which anthropomorphic images are replaced by images of animals, and instead of iconographic faces, there is emptiness.
Recognition of the animal as a new apostle, and the forest as a new temple? Perhaps that’s it.
The purpose of The Chapels remains hidden to us.
The main characters in them are not saints or people, but emptiness as the center of the composition. Fragments of objects of human everyday life, as a substance or building material. In The Chapels, the presence of animal figures as clerics of some (or no) cult is possible.

Plastically, I chose the form of pseudo-religious buildings, because along with the phenomenon of the invention of the tool of labor, I am interested in the phenomenon of religion, which forms the basis of such a phenomenon as architecture (religious buildings preceded residential architecture.

Alexander Burenkov

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