NOVEMBER 12, 2014
N I R D V A N D V A: TRANSCENDING OPPOSITES AT FIELD SATELLITE
BY KEVIN GRIFFIN
VANCOUVERSUN.COM
Nirdvandva was a surprise. I liked it so much, I went back a second time to see the exhibition of works by two local artists at Field Satellite on West Broadway.
So what appealed to me about the show? First of it it’s that odd word: Nirdvandva. It intrigued me. I also liked how it sounded.
It’s the kind of word that you might think is a typo for Nirvana (In fact, Google asked the exact same thing in a search as did the spellcheck for this blog platform.) It’s not: that’s how the word is spelled. The didactic information provided by the exhibition says that it’s a Sanskrit word that refers to a person’s ability to be free from dualities. It goes on to explain that it was popularized by psychologist Carl Jung who used it to discuss dialectics a la Friedrich Hegel and transcendence…
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