when: 02 - 15 October 2023 | | cost: FREE | address: Art Gallery Road Campbelltown NSW 2560 Australia | website: https://c-a-c.com.au/savanhdary-vongpoothorn-aflame/
published: 30 Sep 2023, 5 min read
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Campbelltown Arts Centre presents 'Savanhdary Vongpoothorn: Aflame', an exhibition of new work created by Vongpoothorn over a two-year period.
The body of work draws inspiration from the Ādittapariyāya Sutta (Pali "Fire Sermon Discourse") in Theravada Buddhism - a discourse from the Pali Canon popularly known as the Fire Sermon. In this discourse, Buddha preaches about achieving liberation from suffering through detachment from the five senses and mind. The Fire Sutra is a repeated motif in Vongpoothorn's work, inspired by her family's experience of the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-2020 on the New South Wales South Coast, and compounded by further fire, flood and pandemic events.
For Vongpoothorn, it is difficult to read the Fire Sutra without associating its message with these catastrophic events. Her version of the sutra is not intact but is 'broken', hinting at the fragmented access we have to Buddha's words. Across this new body of work, Vongpoothorn considers the fraught task of reassembling meaning, and explores new ways of expressing the Buddhist teaching of the five senses and mind described in the Fire Sutra. The exhibition comprises a major kinetic sculptural installation, new works on canvas, photogravure etchings and a space dedicated to activities for children.
This project has been assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
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Campbelltown Arts Centre presents 'Savanhdary Vongpoothorn: Aflame', an exhibition of new work created by Vongpoothorn over a two-year period.
The body of work draws inspiration from the Ādittapariyāya Sutta (Pali "Fire Sermon Discourse") in Theravada Buddhism - a discourse from the Pali Canon popularly known as the Fire Sermon. In this discourse, Buddha preaches about achieving liberation from suffering through detachment from the five senses and mind. The Fire Sutra is a repeated motif in Vongpoothorn's work, inspired by her family's experience of the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-2020 on the New South Wales South Coast, and compounded by further fire, flood and pandemic events.
For Vongpoothorn, it is difficult to read the Fire Sutra without associating its message with these catastrophic events. Her version of the sutra is not intact but is 'broken', hinting at the fragmented access we have to Buddha's words. Across this new body of work, Vongpoothorn considers the fraught task of reassembling meaning, and explores new ways of expressing the Buddhist teaching of the five senses and mind described in the Fire Sutra. The exhibition comprises a major kinetic sculptural installation, new works on canvas, photogravure etchings and a space dedicated to activities for children.
This project has been assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
See new events on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxqKJcD5y33GNFEcVDXxjsw/video
Go see Savanhdary Vongpoothorn Aflame 2023.
Savanhdary Vongpoothorn Aflame 2023 is on 02 - 15 October 2023. The opening hours are: see event website for details. Conveniently located in Sydney. Call (02) 4645 4100 for details. Visit their website at https://c-a-c.com.au/savanhdary-vongpoothorn-aflame/.
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