Jagath Weerasinghe

Jagath Weerasinghe, a key player in the Colombo Biennial and co-founder of the experimental Theertha Artist Collective, is one of the most significant artists working in Sri Lanka today. His expressive, neo-romantic paintings reflect on the island’s painful history and articulate the horrors of political violence, displacement, and national genocide. Belgium-born Saskia Pintelon is at heart, a figurative painter who periodically leans into abstraction and text-based work. His collages play on ideas of the monstrous and surreal, using montage to explore age, beauty, gender, love, isolation, loneliness and the balance between the public and private