Muvindu Binoy

ARTIST BIO

Muvindu Binoy (b. 1989, Sri Lanka) 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. He was selected for the Cité Internationales des Arts residency in France in 2021 and the Ya Connect Artist-in-Residence in Sri Lanka in 2019. His work has been featured at Pop South Asia: Artistic Explorations in the Popular at Sharjah Art Foundation (2022), Jawahar Kala Kendra, India (2019) and the Colombo Art Biennale (2016).

CONCEPT

Muvindu Binoy plays with the idea of Ghatam, a musical instrument used in Southern parts of India and plays to the beat of a classical Carnatic piece leaving. He dabs his hand in green paint, a colour he found to resonate with the music he was listening to. The end result is a conversation of the artist with the surface of the pot, made visible through the dried impressions of paint.

View the video here: https://youtu.be/7DqDHyp0JdU