Windows, screens, mirrors presents a series of works drawn from encounters on public transport. On frequent expressway trips to Colombo, weekly errands in Dickwella from his south coast home, and a recent journey to Jaffna, Kaluthantri explores moments of rest, reflection, and tiredness. Looking toward the fleeting and immediate, toward the tender interiority shared on public transport, these quiet, luminous, oil-on-canvas works emerge from his desire for rest and reverie, which led him to develop his practice away from burnout in Colombo.
Mayun Kaluthantri's practice revolves around the tactile-immediacy of painting, photography, print-making and writing, and their function in embodied-meaning-making. His work is energised most by the tensions of masculinity, class, labour and brownness in the various pockets of his fast-developing homeland, and inevitably, that of the “man-made” against the ecological. Mayun also collaborates through artistic interventions at The Packet and by organising third-spaces, such as Monsoon Blues & Co in Colombo. Since quitting a career in tech 4 years ago, Nilwella - a southern fishing village - has been his home.
Mayun Kaluthantri's practice revolves around the tactile-immediacy of painting, photography, print-making and writing, and their function in embodied-meaning-making. His work is energised most by the tensions of masculinity, class, labour and brownness in the various pockets of his fast-developing homeland, and inevitably, that of the “man-made” against the ecological. Mayun also collaborates through artistic interventions at The Packet and by organising third-spaces, such as Monsoon Blues & Co in Colombo. Since quitting a career in tech 4 years ago, Nilwella - a southern fishing village - has been his home.
