We are pleased to announce that artist Muvindu Binoy and Firi Rahman will collaborate to create a mural for the exterior face of our gallery at 41 Horton Place, Colombo 07.
Muvindu Binoy is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is focused predominantly on digital collage and film. He uses the internet as a primary archive to create collages that interrogate the cracks in our social world, systems of fate and ‘online’ realities with a tone of absurdist humour and uncanny truths. He explores themes of gender, agency, title and the expectation of traditional values and the contradictions of modern living through the digital manipulation of images.
Firi Rahman’s work is often concerned with the contentious relationship between humankind and the animal kingdom. He is particularly interested in the interactions between animals and urban environments, and the responsibility societies share in protecting biodiversity. His works, brought to life through his sombre and monochromatic style, are an intimate and sensitive engagement with wildlife. Even in their minimalism, the dexterity of his skill and close engagement with the subject imbues it with a palpable quality — compelling an empathetic response from the viewer.
