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Review of ‘Junctures’: Bearing witness, generation after generation Image courtesy | Sanjana Hattotuwa A pale chair and a pale sofa sit in a photographed room in Kanesh Thabendran’s Lost / Loot X (2015), and neither has any business being there. Framed pictures stay on the wall. So does the clock. The furniture returns flat, almost luminous,... The post ARTRA Perspective Pitches appeared first on…
Review on the Art Exhibition ‘Trapped in a Broken Dream, I Still Think of You’ of Jagath Weerasinghe by Sanjana Hattotuwa Image courtesy | Sanjana Hattotuwa “Under a dark sky, on a shattered land, stuck in a broken dream, I still think you will come.” Excerpt from ‘Under a Dark Sky, on a Shattered Land’,... The post ARTRA Perspective Pitches appeared first on ARTRA .
Reclaiming Sri Lanka’s Fractured Histories Featuring the Works of 15 Contemporary Artists by Azara Jaleel Featured works seen hereMenika van der Poorten, 2012, David Wood Menika van der Poorten, 2012, Cynthia Menika van der Poorten, 2012, Anne Williams In navigating the recent history of Sri Lanka, one is constantly forced to confront a persistent, state-sanctioned... The post Archive of Silenced…
Architect Chelvadurai Anjalendran in conversation with Azara Jaleel alongside a preview of Rupture and Resistance by Mobeetha Muralimanohar “I spent a whole lifetime questioning what art is”, remarked the Architect Chelvadurai Anjalendran, during a riveting headline conversation between ARTRA’s Editor-in-Chief, Azara Jaleel and the architect Chelvadurai Anjalendran, a renowned modernist whose…
ByV.V. GaneshananthanDinidu KarunanyakeAzara Jaleel It is our privilege to select the winner of this prize in a year when freedom is more important than ever, in Sri Lanka and around the world. As we announce our choice of winner, we want to call attention to the freedom to which readers and writers, including Sri Lankan... The post 33rd Gratiaen Prize | Judges Report and Winner Citation for…
Featuring the works of Malki Jayakody, Kopalapillai Mathiskumar, Pulasthi Handunge, Venura Madurapperuma, Marco Manamperi & Rajani Serasinghe Moving fluidly between Sri Lanka’s brutal history and the raw friction within its contemporary life, the exhibited works of Malki Jayakody, Kopalapillai Mathiskumar, Pulasthi Handunge, Venura Madurapperuma, Marco Manamperi & Rajani Serasinghe strip away the…
The Launch of ‘Udayshanth Fernando : Living Design’ The Paradise Road Group of Companies has announced the global release of Udayshanth Fernando: Living Design. Published by Rizzoli International, this monograph pays tribute to one of Sri Lanka’s most distinguished creative visionaries, offering a rare and intimate look into the multidisciplinary world of the man who characterised... The post…
In conversation with Naiza Khan ARTRA X Colomboscope 2026 Image courtesy | Naiza Khan In this interview with Naiza Khan, we delve deep into the practice of a multidisciplinary artist working between London and Karachi, with whom we explore the intersection of personal memory and colonial legacy. Through the lens of “flat-packs,” “mapping water,” and... The post Geometries of Empire | A Dialogue on…
Art Review of Echo, Art Exhibition in Jaffna Written by Dilakshika Jeyakodi & Sumaiya Saneer A rotating exhibition of modern and contemporary art was inaugurated on 17 January 2026 at Mudaliyar Valavu, No. 199, Temple Road, Nallur, Jaffna, under the patronage of the Manicka Mankayerkarasi Cultural Center Trust. Jaffna has long remained an active site... The post Where Art Echo Memory and History…
9th Edition of Colomboscope (January 2026) Image courtesy | Colomboscope Rhythm moves beyond sound and is embedded in how bodies move, how histories are remembered, and how environments register change. At the ninth edition of Colomboscope, Rhythm Alliances, rhythm emerged in its most expansive registers: sonic, bodily, ecological, and social, while inhabiting history, labour, ritual, ecology,...…
