Pro Helvetia Art Residency Award 2020. Layla Gonaduwa sets up studio residency practice on the move, for the coming 3 months. The Art that comes forth will be from this foundation and her collective repository on the run, of images, drawings, writings, thoughts and stories on flora & fauna, memory and human interest stories on Migration that can be worked together. As daunting and exciting as the Maha Monsoon looming ahead.
From the now abandoned village in the jungle, Wije Aththa and wife- the last two inhabitants leave with his Thani Akure Kavi, for those who care to listen.
(Poetry Recited/Written Using Only Consonants -Without Vowel Strokes, of The Sinhala Alphabet)
Link to listen:-
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11AgUs4MtzMYE4cx_n5DvbmT7-jv8ZJ-i/view?usp=drivesdk
Story to follow.
(Photos with permission)
About Facing Maha
Recipient of Pro Helvetia Residency Award 2020
A self taught Interdisciplinary Visual Artist journeying through a wide range of material. Fired Enamel to Text. Paint to Sculpture. Mixed media installations to Woodcut Print.
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With a cathartic creative process inspired by the politics of human perception, corporeal memory and ecology; my art is moving towards a more conceptual practice.
Work History:
Acclaimed works include, The SilverFish, a text based conceptual document and installation that deals with the fragility and ambiguous nature of written history and information. SilverFish received critical recognition both locally and internationally, and was selected for The Reading Room Exhibition in India as part of the Kochi Muziris Biennale. Previously it was exhibited at the Colombo Biennale, Delhi Literary Festival, Bangalore. Mumbai and the UK.
Nominated by Theertha International Artists Collective for The International Artists' Residency with two acclaimed artists from Colombia and India, my installations 'Residue I & II' were site specific newspaper installations that dealt with the Temporality of Landscape of Thought.
I have exhibited extensively both locally and internationally in Solos and Group exhibitions in Sri Lanka and overseas, Colombo Art Biennale and ColomboScope. My work can be found in Private and Public collections and spaces.
Looking forward to reading the post to learn more about thani akure kavi! Listened to the recording - seemed to me like he only used the vowel ‘a’ in that particular kavi. What conventions are used would be interesting to discover.
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