Riiko Sakkinen | Installation Views | Judas Arrieta & Riiko Sakkinen, Feat. Cao Huan Yi: Operation Golden Monkey
Judas Arrieta & Riiko Sakkinen, Feat. Cao Huan Yi: Operation Golden MonkeyKorjaamo Galleria, Helsinki
August 2011
i Golden Monkey refers to Monkey King, Sūn Włkōng, the main character in the classical Chinese epic novel Journey to the West. In the novel, he is a monkey born from a stone who acquires supernatural powers through Taoist practices. After rebelling against heaven and being imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha, he later accompanies the monk Xuanzang on a journey to retrieve Buddhist sutras from India.
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