Anoli Perera

Anoli Perera has deployed her work to present contradictory as well as complex narratives that emerge when living in contemporary society, processed through an artist’s perception. Tapping her personal family histories and her own existence in a particular historical moment that allows her to s...

Anoli Perera has deployed her work to present contradictory as well as complex narratives that emerge when living in contemporary society, processed through an artist’s perception. Tapping her personal family histories and her own existence in a particular historical moment that allows her to see the extremities of two eras, Perera intimately looks back and forth into memory, nostalgia, dispositions of home/family, mass migrations, borders, women’s space, urbanity, and dystopia.

Perera’s current art practice includes painting, sculpture, installation art, video, and photo-performances. Her work incorporates the concept of ‘bricolage’ where fragments from different written texts, raw materials, objects, and painted surfaces are juxtaposed together giving a textured surface. At present, she uses cloth, thread, lace, and paper as raw material for her sculptures and installations.