British artist Peter Suart couldn't have put it more cogently when he described himself as "an atheist with a profound love of Christian art".
His 2011 performance, Fragile, recounted some of the most terrifying plagues in human history and concluded with an image of crucifixion. The four previous entries in his Eternity Cabaret series all respectively touched on such solemn subjects as the Holy Grail, the Holocaust, quantum mechanics and race relations.
Yet the 51-year-old hasn't so much been attempting to answer the big questions as proving the futility of it all.
"I am sympathetic to Christian morality and mysticism, [but] I do not accept the theology," says the Jamaica-born, Hong Kong-raised Suart, who is currently based in Britain - where he confesses to be "unknown" as a theatre artist.
Christianity is unsurprisingly central to Melencolia, Suart's sixth and latest work in his one-man multimedia performance series.