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Envision Minnette De Silva through the lens of D.S. Senanayake flats

“There are personal, emotional, ornamental elements in a building. Ceylon and the East are alive with colourful features. To deny these natural expressions without establishing a discipline of colour and ornament, results only in the garish. Wholly on assimilated modernity is Expressed those who try to ‘build modern’ with aesthetically disastrous results.” ( The life…

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Smell the burning hair

by Chathuri Nissansala ‘Momentum of smell’ (group exhibition) Initiated by Mullegama Art Center curated by Austrian artist Hanna Hollman Supported by The Sovereign Asian Art Foundation , Robertson Cafe and Inmaark Visual Solution Honorable mention Thiwanka Kodikaara , Jananander Laksiri,Pala Pothupitya , Rebekka Pieris   My friend, we have pictured mother Now we’ve just  curled up We have…

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Mother of Universe

work by Lojithan Ram ‘Momentum of Smell” (group exhibition) Initiated by Mullegama Art center under the curation of Austrian Artist Anna Hoffman Supported by The Sovereign Art Foundation , Robertson Cafe and Inmark Visual Solutions Honorable mentions Thiwanka Kodikaara, Jananander Laksiri, Palapothupitiya , Rebekkah Pieris Migration has been the constant epicenter of my being. Throughout…

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searching for my mother 1983-1989

Year 2009, END OF WAR! they proclaimed. I was one of those 15-year-old’s running on the roads during the celebration.  In 2013, I accidentally found a letter which my mother had written in 2009 which was addressed to me. It was a letter about uncertain death as she’s leaving the country as a migrant laborer. 2015 one state regime fallen one begun….

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Authenticity and it’s issues comes with documentation

 Conversation with bandu manamperi and looking into performance art in SriLanka Performance art once under the radar undertaken a new emergence ,with a new shade of light. The new emergence  in a time period of globalization and digital monetization , time based art forms like performance art with ephemeral value has transcended into the form…

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