Pics or it didn’t happen/Memory

Installation view, Body Building (2019), Ishara Foundation Dubai.

‘Pics or it Didn’t Happen (Memory)’ replays a visual diary of my life as a photographer in Colombo from February to July 2016. This is a personal record made whilst documenting the charged post-war urban transformation of the city, where still moments strung into a ‘stream of consciousness’ video. The images are fleeting and often hard to grasp, they overlap and merge together and the speed and gaps in the narrative can blur the sense of time and space. Despite this, moments of startling clarity present themselves in the mix. As a product of a digital citizen who participates in and critically reflects on how the world is represented, the work acknowledges the incessant need to capture life on our handheld devices, distorting and and extending it through new technologies.



Screenings / Exhibitions
2023 Pop South Asia, Kiran Nadar Museumn of Art, Delhi
2022 Pop South Asia, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah
2020 Recurrence, A conversation between six artists, Lionel Wendt Gallery, Colombo
2019 Body Building, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai
2016 Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa
2016 Colombo Art Biennale, Colombo