The work or the series of works that I try to do here during my residency is about how borders, taken the concept in its widest sense, make the idea of the self to disintegrate, to fragment and to frustrate. But as we know the ‘self’ doesn’t really disintegrate or fragments as such. Said in other words, what I try to capture is the tyranny of the frustrating processes that borders engender.
Jagath Weerasinghe
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Courtesy of Baik Art Gallery & Van Every Smith Galleries
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In this series, Weerasinghe depicts the body in various states of fragmentation. Broken and incomplete, the bodies depict what may happen to each of us at a border crossing. “ Whether security checkpoints, border walls, or more abstractly, the moment we meet someone for the first time, or even when we fall in love.” Weerasinghe addresses borders as a site for deconstruction of identity to the point of abstraction, where “one’s perceived ability to present oneself is temporarily halted and suspended” and the sojourner acquiesces to the unknown and an invasion of privacy.
Davidson College Art Galleries 2019
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Jagath WeerasingheUntitled XXXIII, 2019Mixed Media on Paper27cm x 80cm
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