Idols
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
This series by Ugo Untoro in his recent solo exhibition at the National Gallery presents a figure like that depicted by the 9th century Chinese Buddhist figure Linji Yixuan: one heeding dharma who ‘is above shape and form, not rooted or planted in any place, nor abiding in any abode, yet lives forever.’
In other words, Ugo’s Buddha is the Buddha who walks below, in the dust, slowly, easily forgotten. He is not the Buddh
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