
Muvindu Binoy
Colonialism, 2020
Giclée Print on Archival Photo Paper
11 3/4 x 16 1/8 in
Edition of 10 plus 1AP (#3/10)
Muvindu Binoy uses digital collage and printmaking to give life to Sri Lanka's entry into a globalized world. Exploring global comsumer culture's intersection with the island's sense of national identity,...
Muvindu Binoy uses digital collage and printmaking to give life to Sri
Lanka's entry into a globalized world. Exploring global comsumer
culture's intersection with the island's sense of national identity,
Muvindu speaks to the hybridized, pastiche shape of Sri Lankan culture
today. Combining imagery from advertising and digital culture with
iconic images of Sri Lanka's heritage and art history, Muvindu uses new
media as a means to explore deeper questions about a rapidly changing
landscape.
Muvindu
Binoy (b. 1989, Sri Lanka) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice
is focused predominantly on digital collage and film. He uses the
internet as a primary archive to create collages that interrogate the
cracks in our social world, systems of fate and ‘online’ realities with a
tone of absurdist humour and uncanny truths. He explores themes of
gender, agency, title and the expectation of traditional values and the
contradictions of modern living through the digital manipulation of
images. He was selected for the Cité Internationales des Arts residency
in France (2021) and the Ya Connect Artist-in-Residence in Sri Lanka
(2019). His work has been featured at Pop South Asia: Artistic
Explorations in the Popular at Sharjah Art Foundation (2022), Jawahar
Kala Kendra, India (2019) and the Colombo Art Biennale (2016). (Bio courtesy Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo)
Lanka's entry into a globalized world. Exploring global comsumer
culture's intersection with the island's sense of national identity,
Muvindu speaks to the hybridized, pastiche shape of Sri Lankan culture
today. Combining imagery from advertising and digital culture with
iconic images of Sri Lanka's heritage and art history, Muvindu uses new
media as a means to explore deeper questions about a rapidly changing
landscape.
Muvindu
Binoy (b. 1989, Sri Lanka) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice
is focused predominantly on digital collage and film. He uses the
internet as a primary archive to create collages that interrogate the
cracks in our social world, systems of fate and ‘online’ realities with a
tone of absurdist humour and uncanny truths. He explores themes of
gender, agency, title and the expectation of traditional values and the
contradictions of modern living through the digital manipulation of
images. He was selected for the Cité Internationales des Arts residency
in France (2021) and the Ya Connect Artist-in-Residence in Sri Lanka
(2019). His work has been featured at Pop South Asia: Artistic
Explorations in the Popular at Sharjah Art Foundation (2022), Jawahar
Kala Kendra, India (2019) and the Colombo Art Biennale (2016). (Bio courtesy Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo)
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