Liturgical Dwellling: Agora Ballroom, Level L2

Liturgy traditionally refers to a structured form of collective worship shaped through repetition, rhythm, gesture, and ritual. In Liturgical Dwelling, the term expands beyond religion into the choreography of everyday life. Inhabiting routines become liturgical acts through their repetition and accumulated significance. Silence, repetition, and stillness shape the rhythms of everyday life. These actions accumulate into forms of spatial and emotional memory. Drawing from Henri Lefebvre’s understanding of space as produced through embodied routines and rhythms, Liturgical Dwelling approaches liturgy as something embedded within ordinary life.Ritual emerges through acts of return, care, devotion, and inhabitation.

The exhibition approaches dwelling as an ongoing negotiation with memory, intimacy, labour, and historical residue. Édouard Glissant’s notion of relation becomes significant here, where identity forms through entanglement, opacity, and coexistence. Across the exhibition, liturgy functions as a structure of orientation through which bodies remain situated within unstable historical and emotional conditions. What emerges is a form of stillness charged with accumulation, where the sacred persists through the quiet endurance of everyday life.