In the exhibition The Fox Doesn’t Think About God, artist, writer and instrument maker Markus Lantto initiates a poetic inquiry into the residual power of religious architecture and the emotional reverberations of sacred space in a contemporary, often secularised, cultural context; through a series of timber-based installations, embroideries and sound works, Lantto gently dismantles and reconfigures the symbolic syntax of ecclesiastical form to ask what remains when belief is absent but reverence persists, crafting environments that seem at once solemn and estranged, ceremonial and self-aware, in which visitors are invited to inhabit the hollow spaces of inherited faith without the weight of dogma or doctrine; central to the exhibition is a site-specific roof structure built from ornamented wooden beams, recalling diverse sacred traditions while refusing any definitive religious affiliation, thus offering an inclusive architectural metaphor – a sort of spiritual shelter beyond theology – under which viewers might encounter a sense of awe or peace, even if godless; this atmosphere of suspended meaning is exemplified in works like Guds plantegning, an embroidery mounted on lacquered wood that evokes divine design while keeping its blueprint open-ended, or I nästa liv ska jag dansa och köra Harley Davidson, a tongue-in-cheek sculptural title that blends reincarnation fantasies with Nordic irony, highlighting the humour embedded in ritual’s persistence amidst post-religious identities; the sonic work Liv adds a temporal dimension to this contemplation, inviting listeners into an emotional soundscape co-created with Anton Raukola, extending Lantto’s multisensory reflection on how ritual objects, symbols and sounds maintain their emotive potency even when their sacred narratives unravel; the exhibition becomes a mirror in which cultural memory, inherited hierarchies and contemporary subjectivity intermingle, not to affirm faith but to explore the emotional infrastructures it once built and still shadows, proposing that sacred form can survive belief as a language of communal memory and existential longing rather than of submission or truth. https://samtidskunst.no/event/markus-lantto-reven-tenkjer-ikkje-p%C3%A5-gud
