Trauma-Stigmata: Symptomizing the Imaginary Response to the Memories of the Past, Its Traces and Repetitions.
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 e...