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Our curated collection for the month of April, celebrates the multifaceted world of collage. From digital collages, bursting forth with a tumult of hues and myriad elements colliding and coalescing to form captivating compositions to paper collages imbued with personal and cultural narratives that invite introspection, this collection draws audiences to revel in the boundless creativity of collage art. Each piece offers a unique perspective, celebrating the fusion of disparate elements. This collection features artists Muvindu Binoy, Hema Shironi and Kanesh Thabendran.
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MUVINDU BINOY
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In Muvindu Binoy’s Survival of the Fragile, we encounter a language made of things. Muvindu enlists an object vocabulary lifted from roaming the streets and museums of Paris to poke holes in our false equation of fragility with weakness. He valorizes the fragment - the bits of stuff that show up in his work and glide through fields of colour: a white linen shirt, a wooden fence, a plinth on a tilted checkerboard floor. These things form the pictorial language Muvindu employs in his digital collage works. We might imagine them in a primary school reading primer - the word ‘sex’ in neat cursive denoting a marble couple locked in embrace, the word ‘violence’ to describe a bulletproof vest. In Muvindu’s work, the visual fragment - the splice of a traditional landscape painting, the carcass of an antique urn - has more to say than the whole. Each time we sit with these works, some thing new appears, conjured out of depths of colour.
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Muvindu Binoy
Floor Plan 01, 2022Giclée Print on Archival Photo Paper
61 x 152 cm
24 1/8 x 59 7/8 in
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HEMA SHIRONI
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Hema states that her practice focuses on the human and universal aspects of the conflict. Her work is driven by the nostalgia of the numerous places she has called home and how each community belonging to those places grapples with concerns of language, culture, memory, myth, gender, and equality. Sri Lanka is a vibrant country with a multitude of overlapping and cultural trajectories, where many languages, religions, and historical communities coexist.
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Hema Shironi
In the name of..., 2019Photo Print Cutting
92 x 183 cm
36 1/4 x 72 1/8 in -
Hema Shironi’s series Route to Promised Land is underpinned by recurring gridded structures that permeate her compositions created through photo-cuttings - a format through which familiar images are dissected to reveal similar structural principles along with uncertainties that characterize inquiries into cultural identity and migration.
My works are about a process of self questioning; who am I? why was I born? Why do I live? Where am I going? This contributes to an understanding about myself. I find many of my answers suggest a surreal self and location.
- Hema Shironi
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KANESH THABENDRAN
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Kanesh Thabendran’s Memorial Series is a testament to the personal narratives of trauma and loss that follow prolonged periods of conflict. The artist engages in the manipulation of space and dimension in an attempt to unearth hidden narratives that are harsh realities for his community. Images are distorted beyond recognition alluding to the disorientation that accompanies violence, while other images are cut out leaving behind empty spaces that are evocative of absence.
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Kanesh Thabendran
Memorial Series I, 2018Photocut and Collage
30 x 42 cm
11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in
CUT AND PASTE
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