Stuck in Samsāra
Group exhibition inspired by the Lotus Sutra at Bunker Projects.
Stuck in Saṃsāra opens this Friday 2/6 at Bunker Projects!
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The exhibition features ten AAPI artists from around the country, including Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and St. Louis, working in painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, and video. Exhibited artists are Christian Bañez, Martin Castro, Jon Chao, Anne Chen, Eriko Hattori, Marius Keo Marjolin, Brent Nakamoto, Anthony Park Kascak, Sara Tang, and Song Watkins Park.
Stuck in Samsara, is produced with support from @jadedpgh with an opening reception at @bunkerprojects Friday, February 6 from 6-9. Stay tuned for more programming updates! 🔥
Taking inspiration from the Lotus Sutra, this exhibition reimagines the Parable of the Burning House, one of the most important stories from the sutra. The story describes a vast house, owned by a very rich man, which suddenly catches fire.
The man’s children are so busy playing that they do not notice or believe that the house is burning. In order to save them, he promises to give them his riches if they leave the house. In the story, the burning house represents the world of suffering-or samsara-and the man’s riches represent the Buddha’s teachings of liberation-nirvana. However, the sutra also teaches that this is just a story. In truth, there is no way out of the house. We can only find liberation within the flames. The world of suffering is the world of liberation-to awaken to suffering is liberation itself.
Central to the story, and to the exhibition, is the image of fire in its many forms. Fire is destruction and death, but it’s also energy, purification, rebirth, life itself. Flames destroy but they also bloom. Alongside fire, the works in the exhibition also explore themes of attention and awareness, sexuality and desire, nature, beauty, ritual, devotion, and grief. The exhibition seeks to present these images in a way that challenges conventional dualities, including the separation between suffering and liberation.
@christianbanez_
@_erikohattori_
@saratang_drawmein
moth_songg
@anthonykascak_
@songwatkinspark
@naturalrealnotfake
@tofu.twink
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The exhibition features ten AAPI artists from around the country, including Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and St. Louis, working in painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, and video. Exhibited artists are Christian Bañez, Martin Castro, Jon Chao, Anne Chen, Eriko Hattori, Marius Keo Marjolin, Brent Nakamoto, Anthony Park Kascak, Sara Tang, and Song Watkins Park.
Stuck in Samsara, is produced with support from @jadedpgh with an opening reception at @bunkerprojects Friday, February 6 from 6-9. Stay tuned for more programming updates! 🔥
Taking inspiration from the Lotus Sutra, this exhibition reimagines the Parable of the Burning House, one of the most important stories from the sutra. The story describes a vast house, owned by a very rich man, which suddenly catches fire.
The man’s children are so busy playing that they do not notice or believe that the house is burning. In order to save them, he promises to give them his riches if they leave the house. In the story, the burning house represents the world of suffering-or samsara-and the man’s riches represent the Buddha’s teachings of liberation-nirvana. However, the sutra also teaches that this is just a story. In truth, there is no way out of the house. We can only find liberation within the flames. The world of suffering is the world of liberation-to awaken to suffering is liberation itself.
Central to the story, and to the exhibition, is the image of fire in its many forms. Fire is destruction and death, but it’s also energy, purification, rebirth, life itself. Flames destroy but they also bloom. Alongside fire, the works in the exhibition also explore themes of attention and awareness, sexuality and desire, nature, beauty, ritual, devotion, and grief. The exhibition seeks to present these images in a way that challenges conventional dualities, including the separation between suffering and liberation.
@christianbanez_
@_erikohattori_
@saratang_drawmein
moth_songg
@anthonykascak_
@songwatkinspark
@naturalrealnotfake
@tofu.twink
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