Christopher Kulendran Thomas, When Platitudes Become Form. Courtesy the artist and Mercer Union
Christopher Kulendran Thomas
When Platitudes Become Form
6 September – 12 October 2013
at Mercer Union, Toronto
Through his ongoing enterprise When Platitudes Become Form Christopher Kulendran Thomas reconfigures artworks by some of Sri Lanka’s most celebrated young artists purchased through the new contemporary art gallery scene in Colombo. The dislocation of artworks from one context to another, rather than operating as a seamless transition, is problematised by Thomas who mobilises current aesthetic tropes to translate contemporary art’s mimetic forms from the West. Contemporary art rather than universal becomes a language as material form translated from one context to another.
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