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The artists in Altar explore the act of worshipping in its multitude of forms, often using vernacular materials to invert traditions and revitalize animist beliefs.

Timur Merah Project VII by Citra Sasmita is a long-term undertaking that traces and rereads histories and narratives from the Balinese archipelago. The project reinterprets inaccessible manuscripts written in Ancient Javanese and Balinese. In the two-channel video work, a performer recites the poem Prelambang Bhasa Wewatkean (The Coded Language of Symbols), written by I Dew Agung Istri Kanya, a Queen of the Klungkung kingdom in …