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A play dreamt on paper, 'The Way You Like It' is a delightful examination of the human condition. The exhibition opens into a dialogue on human agency and experience that constantly goes off script amidst uncontrollable social, political, and emotional variables. Thisath Thoradeniya imagines life as an absurd theatre, inviting viewers to make sense of it while remaining aware of the impossibility of ever escaping it.
Led by an inanimate wooden marionette that plays the secondary role of Victorian jester, Thoradeniya’s series of drawings and kinetic sculptures reveal a careful study in body language and psychology. Imbued with nonchalance, joy, fear they come alive with a range of human emotions.
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Existing in a fool’s paradise, the marionette wades through a discomforting reality with mirth. Dancing on the Edge draws on the familiar metaphors of the circus, trapeze performances, and precarious balancing acts to imagine life as a spectacle of uncertainty. Here, the jester is never fully in control, pulled in different directions by forces beyond its grasp, embodying the tensions, absurdities, and challenges of human existence. With each series, the scene shifts between warmth, suspense, humour, and fear.
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Thisath Thoradeniya
At the Edge of an Abyss, 2026Steel, Clay, Electric Motor and Galvanized Steel Flexible Hose
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Existing in a fool’s paradise, the marionette wades through a discomforting reality with mirth. Dancing on the Edge draws on the familiar metaphors of the circus, trapeze performances, and precarious balancing acts to imagine life as a spectacle of uncertainty. Here, the jester is never fully in control, pulled in different directions by forces beyond its grasp, embodying the tensions, absurdities, and challenges of human existence. With each series, the scene shifts between warmth, suspense, humour, and fear.
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The Great Fall gradually moves towards a more sombre register, where playful theatrics give way to the weight of lived experience. The toy-like marionette slowly transforms into a figure marked by resilience and determination, coming to terms with the contradictions of its own human existence.
Within this theatre of life, the protagonist is both subject and observer, predestined to be shaped by its environment while simultaneously posing probing questions about agency, control, and the roles we inhabit.
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The Way You Like It : Thisath Thoradeniya
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