The Prayer Rug series are works created by Francotte during her time spent with the Rohingya Refugees. An artist who chooses to engage with communities unfamiliar to her to enhance her practice, this experience in Bangladesh resulted in an exhibition that was presented both at the Bangladesh National Museum and later at Saskia Fernando Gallery in Colombo titled 'Being The Other'. The Prayer Rugs were created around a similar time and were inspired by the visual of refugees praying on their mats in the camps and the themes of religion, ethnicity and cast.

Kanesh Thabendran (b.1988) is hailed for his agentive stance through the stylised technique of photo cutting in exposing the angst of post-war Sri Lanka. Kanesh’s roots lay in the Northern part of the country, where the atrocities of a thirty-year civil war were prominent. The personal element of his work lay in memory, in snapshots of a life taken away when his home was demolished during the war when his family was forced to leave. However, after a couple of years he recalls finally having the freedom to return, but to a house that was no longer identifiable or relatable as he could not come to terms with the remnants of what was left. The artist's experimentation with photo cutting began at this point in his life, when he started to excavate his memories from a bygone time, and tried to envision a life that he could have experienced had the war not affected his life. Using old photographs, the artist created an intriguing artistic narrative, positioning the imagined with the real. Photo cutting as a creative process became so innate, that it evolved into a mode of emotional release resulting in an overflow of thought and emotion.