Bandu Mannamperi

Bandu Mannamperi

2024

Lunuganga

Oil on Canvas

23 X 30 cm

Artist Bio

Bandu Manamperi is among the pioneers of performance art in Sri Lanka. He creates highly personal art experiences based on the transformation of his own body. His art practice also encompasses sculpture, drawing, painting, and installation art. He lectures and consults widely on a range of topics including contemporary art, performance, museology, and local craft traditions. Manamperi’s praxis brings together notions of memory and demonstrates how the effects of external events and doctrines are absorbed into the individual’s being through the body to create memories that become inscribed within us. Manaperi holds a BFA in sculpture and is a core member of Colombo’s Theertha Artists’ Collective.