This October, dive into a world infused with passion and adventure with our curated online viewing room that celebrates the colour red. From brilliant hues of vermilion that suggest forbidden desires and fiery red that express dissonance, to a digital dalliance with pink, this month's lineup looks at works of artists Hashan Cooray, Fabienne Francotte, Muvindu Binoy, and Kavan Balasuriya.

Hashan Cooray is a self taught artist based in Colombo. He combines drawing, painting, digital art, installation and mixed media collage to engage his subjects beyond the stereotypical translation of portraiture. The artist repurposes the artefacts of nationalism, capitalism and consumerism such as propaganda posters and commercial advertisements. He presents multi-layered and textured portraits that interrogate the psyche of individuals influenced by the over-consumption of media. Characterised by an intense gestural quality that portrays his subjects in an intrusive manner, his work provides a stark image of the impact of an oppressive regime and consumerist culture on society and its denizens. His work has been featured in both group and solo exhibitions at Saskia Fernando Gallery, Sri Lanka and has been published in the Imago Mundi Book Project by the Benetton Foundation.

Muvindu Binoy is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is focused predominantly on digital collage and film. He uses the internet as a primary archive to create collages that interrogate the cracks in our social world, systems of fate and ‘online’ realities with a tone of absurdist humour and uncanny truths. He explores themes of gender, agency, title and the expectation of traditional values and the contradictions of modern living through the digital manipulation of images.