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Capitain Petzel•Jun 11, 2025 — Aug 09, 2025
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Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce Christopher Kulendran Thomas’ solo exhibition, on view from 11 June 2025.
The exhibition consists of one monumental painting and three small works on glass that algorithmically metabolize the colonial art history that came to dominate in Sri Lanka after the artist’s family, who are Tamil, left escalating ethnic violence in the country. The big painting, which gives the exhibition its title, spans the entirety of the exhibition space. The composition is densely packed with bodies emerging from, and fading into, a dark forest. Distinctions between figure and environment – and between creation and destruction – are almost indistinguishable. This new painting, the artist’s largest to date, raises questions that are particularly urgent in the aftermath of conflict and erasure: Which histories are rendered visible? Who holds the authority to narrate them? And how are images mobilized to shape memory?
Kulendran Thomas’ practice subtly seeds doubt into the…
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Capitain Petzel•Jun 11, 2025 — Aug 09, 2025
Press Release
Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce Christopher Kulendran Thomas’ solo exhibition, on view from 11 June 2025.
The exhibition consists of one monumental painting and three small works on glass that algorithmically metabolize the colonial art history that came to dominate in Sri Lanka after the artist’s family, who are Tamil, left escalating ethnic violence in the country. The big painting, which gives the exhibition its title, spans the entirety of the exhibition space. The composition is densely packed with bodies emerging from, and fading into, a dark forest. Distinctions between figure and environment – and between creation and destruction – are almost indistinguishable. This new painting, the artist’s largest to date, raises questions that are particularly urgent in the aftermath of conflict and erasure: Which histories are rendered visible? Who holds the authority to narrate them? And how are images mobilized to shape memory?
Kulendran Thomas’ practice subtly seeds doubt into the…
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