Chandraguptha Thenuwara

Sri Lankan , b. 1960

Chandraguptha Thenuwara’s (b. 1960, Galle. Lives and works in Athurugiriya) interdisciplinary practice deals with the politics of memory and violence, extensively confronting the ‘glitch’ in Sri Lanka’s obsession with beautification, even at the expense of erasing its recent history. His wider body of work includes sculpture, painting, drawings, public monuments, lectures, and curatorial and collaborative projects, all of which are informed directly by his activism. Drawing from a repository of leitmotifs such as barrels, barricades, lotuses, guns, soldiers and stupas, Thenuwara’s artist-activist interventions are intertwined with the sociopolitical developments in Sri Lanka. 

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