Place for Multiconfessional Devotion and Prayer

With the support of New Patrons, the project was commissioned to artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, who wrapped the 80-square-­meter rectangular room in sinuous, light-blue walls and added sheer metal screens partitioning the room into five sections that are visible to one other and united by the central space. The only window is a large central skylight, which illuminates a replica of the artist’s classic work Cubic Meter of Infinity—a cube lined with mirrors that conveys an ethereal sense of solemnity without any specific religious references. Each of the sections contains a key symbolic object relevant to the faith or worldview to which it is devoted: Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, as well as secular society. This unique project can be seen as a manifesto for a univer­salist understanding of spirituality, offering a new spatial grammar of religious coexistence.

Text: Mirko Gatti