Entry Into the Indigenous Abode
The artwork of Bảo-Khang Nguyễn investigates ontological, epistemological, cosmological, metaphysical and soteriological themes, such as the nature of dualistic subject-object perception as well as unbounded/nonlocalized (ka dag chen po, ཀ་དག་ཆེན་པོ ), trans-conceptual (nirvikalpa, निर्विकल्प ) and nondual (advaita, अद्वैत ) awareness.
Nguyễn creates a semiotic system that translates and compresses nondual cosmologies and philosophies to forms of diagrammatic symbolism, which explores numerous ways to render the nature of dualistic perception as well as how the inherent field of nondual awareness can be accessible. To be more specific, the diagrams inquire how the perceiver, upon closely contemplating and visualizing the symbolic language, can be incited to gain insights into the nature of conscious perception as well as the underlying field from which it originates. Furthermore, by attending in this manner, he believes there is a possibility for the mind to be spontaneously released from the recognizable contents of consciousness such that an unoccupied space for the direct recognition of and identification with one's fundamental nature becomes possible. This is central to his investigation of visual media's capacity to evoke an unmediated awareness that is free from thought-constructions.
Nguyễn creates a semiotic system that translates and compresses nondual cosmologies and philosophies to forms of diagrammatic symbolism, which explores numerous ways to render the nature of dualistic perception as well as how the inherent field of nondual awareness can be accessible. To be more specific, the diagrams inquire how the perceiver, upon closely contemplating and visualizing the symbolic language, can be incited to gain insights into the nature of conscious perception as well as the underlying field from which it originates. Furthermore, by attending in this manner, he believes there is a possibility for the mind to be spontaneously released from the recognizable contents of consciousness such that an unoccupied space for the direct recognition of and identification with one's fundamental nature becomes possible. This is central to his investigation of visual media's capacity to evoke an unmediated awareness that is free from thought-constructions.
