ABSTRACT
In this chapter, London-based contemporary artist and filmmaker Chiara Ambrosio’s ongoing zine subscription project, As Far As The Eye Can Travel, provides a focused case study to explore contemporary artwork as a site of pilgrimage. The socio-historic context and spiritual impetus that undergirds Ambrosio’s series is explored through interviews with the artist and cultural critics and shows a continuity, rather than rupture, of the ancient notion of artmaking and viewing as a sacred journey. The critical framework developed within can be applied to the work of many other artists engaging in the use of assemblage of religious objects in particular (in sculpture, in installations, or in photographs) in order to engender an embodied experience of entering into a sacred space.
