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Chandraguptha Thenuwara Sri Lankan , b. 1960

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Chandraguptha Thenuwara, Covert 14, 2022
Chandraguptha Thenuwara, Covert 14, 2022

Chandraguptha Thenuwara Sri Lankan , b. 1960

Covert 14, 2022
Ink on Paper
30 x 42 cm
11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in
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Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Chandraguptha Thenuwara, Reminiscence IV/ Lotuses , 2019
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Chandraguptha Thenuwara, Reminiscence IV/ Lotuses , 2019
The black line drawings in Thenuwara’s Covert series present intertwining leitmotifs such as lotus buds, bodies, barbed wire, thorns, stupas, lion tails, weapons, and vehicles, which the artist employs in...
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The black line drawings in Thenuwara’s Covert series present intertwining leitmotifs such as lotus buds, bodies, barbed wire, thorns, stupas, lion tails, weapons, and vehicles, which the artist employs in his rhetoric against conflict. Covert considers the way collective violence puts pressure on the aesthetic field, as visual culture is co-opted into militaristic iconography. But while the series works to reveal such strategies, it also strives to undermine them: to appropriate and reinvent such symbolism in protest against its weaponization and the profound violence that accompanies it. Begun just before the 2022 Aragalaya protests, Covert is also deeply committed to the imaginative potential of contemporary art to picture political possibilities in alliance with wider social movements.
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Covert | 2023
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