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Nasi Lemak Kukus

10 Thursday Sep 2015

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Nasi Lemak Kukus 

229, Selegie Road, Singapore
Self served restaurant with traditional steamed rice. This restaurant was just besides of the hotel I stayed in. Most fascinating thing of this place for me was the restaurant walls. Two of its walls were full with the comments and paintings of the visitors. Mostly by the students of Lasalle collage of Arts.

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Devotee

04 Friday Sep 2015

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His Holiness Pope Francis hold the mass at  Gall Face Green Colombo  on 14th January 2015. Photograph was  shoot after the Holy mass.

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(i)mage An Exhibition of Images

01 Tuesday Sep 2015

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(i)mage An Exhibition of Images

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Space is personal; it is determined by our cultural, emotional and intellectual limits to ensure our comfortable existence. The discourse of space is ever-present within photography. The space between the viewer and the viewed, the spaces constrained by a finite frame as well as the memory of a space captured through a lens are all in this discourse. Space is shaped through emotional experience, through memory and through observation. These things also shape personal experience with photography. Images exist in all spaces public and private; from public images on Facebook to private dreams running through our minds. An image can lead us to recall a specific space connected to a time or place. As a result, a space can become forever owned, stored away and touched again and again. This exhibition titled (i)mage includes the works of four image-makers, Danushka Marasinghe, Waruni Chandrasena, Sajeewa Thotagamuwa and Maddie Klett. They express their personal encounters with photography through the use of moving and non-moving imagery.

Concept Note -Waruni Anuruddhika

Freedom, Prison and the Heaven within Walls . 2015 Series of 5 digital prints from scanned color negatives. 12 x 18 inches

Space and its distinction between ‘public’, and ‘private’ was a modern invention in European discourse. Pre industrial Europe, Particularly in Britain, identified the home (domestic) and work (professional) spheres as a single entities. Distinction between public and private is one aspect of spatial politics that has developed throughout history along with spatial segregation politics in the industrialization process.

The naturalized and neutralized notion of public and private is not innocent. It was the process of marginalization, segregation, and violence. It was the process that defined how human beings should behave in public and private spheres, that defined who has the right for labour and whose responsibility it is to maintain the home. Vast arrays of concepts and discourses have drawn the boundary while at the same time eliminating its humanized face, leaving people feeling of abandoned, isolated, and marginalized while reinterpreting human relationship in new manner.

These photographs are a metaphoric attempt to imagine the three different spaces of public and private, which are isolated from its human interactions.  It attempts to portray the experiential reflection of how such distinction can take on a different meaning, through human interactions, through blurring the boundaries, crisscrossed actions across boundaries, and so on. It is also an exercise in imagining the transformation of the meaning of space through emptiness.

The exhibition was held at Theertha International Artists Collective 39/4A, D. S. Senanayake Mawatha, Borella, Sri Lank .  July 2015

Image captured with 35 mm Film / Colour reversal Films / Printed in Photo papers / White Matt / Wooden frame

Nikon FM 2  35- 105 mm