KANDY ROAD
Vishmi Helaratne
18/11/21 – 11/12/21
KANDY ROAD is an exploration of painting, sculpture, installation, and hospitality. Welcome to a visual narrative that illustrates nostalgic spaces, reimagined utopias, and anthropomorphic subjects - all through the lens of a queer, brown artist and chef. Mark-making processes are intertwined emotively, autonomously, and primitively through culinary and painting techniques, that aim to expose a high use of viscosity in texture, perspective and deliciousness. Vishmi addresses significant histories of Sri Lankan upbringing in Aotearoa, politics of sex and familiarity of past, present, and future worlds.
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Vishmi Helaratne is a Te- Whanganui-a-Tara based artist who explores social practices, hospitality, multiculturalism, sensory languages, and storytelling. Helaratne aims to marinate on particular narratives that question dual identities and other worlds through community and connection-based experience. She graduated with a BFA (honours) from the College of Art and Design at the University Of New South Wales (2018) and has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2019, and UNSW galleries, Sydney, 2019.
Design by Haz Forrester
Sponsored by Parrotdog & Everyday Wines
