Exhibition

Sri Sri Lanka: Mapping post-colonial Ceylon

22 Jan 2016 – 20 Feb 2016

Event times

11:00am-6:00pm

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Free

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TARQ

Mumbai
Maharashtra, India

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Pala's first solo exhibition at TARQ explores the process of re-crafting the ‘official’ version of maps as a consequence of the underlying geopolitics that are in constant flux and that have changed throughout Asia’s historical evolution.

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It gives us great pleasure to announce Sri Lankan artist, Pala Pothupitiye’s first solo exhibition in India at TARQ. Titled “Sri Sri Lanka”, the exhibition primarily features a suite of Pala’s celebrated maps, on both paper and canvas. Pala's first solo exhibition in India explores the process of re-crafting the ‘official’ version of maps as a consequence of the underlying geopolitics that are in constant flux and that have changed throughout Asia’s historical evolution. Each map delves into Sri Lanka’s rich historical past, and with each map, the artist attempts to decode another aspect of the nation’s fraught identity. The artist works with maps carefully modifying and manipulating the image of Sri Lanka that is familiar to the viewer in its conventional form, but in this case has morphed beyond recognition. 

“Sri Sri Lanka” will also include a set of sculptures that further examine the post-colonial Sri Lankan identity, through the lens of the artist. It is through these maps and sculptures that the exhibition provides an insight to the politically biased, and often subjective notions of map-making. It is also perhaps the case that the scars of colonialism and religious conflicts demand that Sri Lanka re-looks at herself, in this case, through the eyes of a cartographer who questions his own traditional as well as academic upbringing in a politically-charged nation that, from his artistic vantage point, fails to address the venerated title — ‘Sri’ —the country is known for.

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