Shrineshare is a Connections Through Culture 2023-24 project, by Sharon Chin, Zedeck Siew, and David Blandy
What do we hold sacred in times of crisis?
ShrineShare is a collaborative project working with artists from the UK & Malaysia to share their visions of sacred shrines—be they ancient, personal, or imagined.
The stamp-art folio project asked sixteen artists from Malaysia, Thailand, the UK, and the US to think about shrines:
- datuk kongs;
- sacred wells;
- flowers left at places of tragedy;
- Geocities fansites.
They answered with images of personal sites of devotion—literal, imagined, figurative, true. The project turned their shrines into rubber stamps, resulting in seventy physical folders: each containing sixteen handmade prints, variously inspired by family and culture; home and travel; seeking and hope.
See the artists’ prints and inspiration notes.
These shrines are framed by ASCII-art designs, the aesthetic of the early Internet to recall the promise of unexpected, sincere, peer-to-peer connection.
The artists' prints and shrines were exhibited across the UK and Malaysia, looking at the notion of the shrine in the 21st century and how spaces of the domestic and the divine intersect.
