This exhibition brings together Dumith Kulasekar's paintings created between 2012 and 2023 in two different locations; New York City in the USA during 2012-2014, and two studios in Sri Lanka. The exhibition is presented as a self-curated project emphasising the terminological meaning; curating as caring for something that has different values concerning different contexts. The self-curation emphasises the integrity of studio research with a post-studio research context where a specific context is regenerated or allows emerging through the way of contextualising the works within a particular material space. In this sense, self-curation is again a political and poetical potential act within the so-called contemporary (institutionalised) art practice. This exhibition is titled Trauma-Stigmata and has emerged from more than fifteen years of studio and research practice on the theme of trauma which was the title of the first exhibition of Dumith Kulasekara held in 2008 in Col
Dumith Kulasekara: Visual Arts Practice, Research & Writing.
This blog was initially designed in 2006 with the aim of showing Dumith Kulasekara's studio practice. The upgraded blog features a wide range of works by Dumith Kulasekara which includes studio practice, writing, and research on visual arts. This is the official blog of Dumith Kulasekara, and all the contents written and published in this blog are all right received by the Author.