Presented in collaboration with Off the Kerb Gallery and Ondru, the exhibition brings together artists and community members from Sri Lanka and the diaspora to reflect on Sri Lankan identity as lived across fracture, memory, and becoming.

Synopsis: Fragments of Us

This exhibition is an exploration of identity, fractured, layered, and constantly reshaped. For Sri Lankans who grew up in the shadow of war, economic collapse, ethnic divides, and faith tensions, identity has never been simple. It carries the weight of survival and memory of belonging and exclusion, of wounds that never fully close. 

For the diaspora, another duality emerges, the tension of being caught between worlds. Between the culture of home and the culture of elsewhere. Between memory and forgetting. Between inherited histories and the compulsion to create new ones. 

Through painting and artistic practice, this exhibition challenges the dominant narratives that deny or erase these experiences. Instead, it offers counter narratives, visual stories of grief and resilience, of humour and love, of the quiet acts of resistance that shape survival. 

This is not only about Sri Lanka, but about the human condition itself: how identity is formed in the face of rupture, how wounds are carried across borders, and how art can stitch fragments into something resembling wholeness. 

Identity here is both question and declaration. It invites us to look beyond ethnicity, religion, geography and gender, to witness the messy, beautiful, unfinished story of what it means to be human. 

The exhibition brings together artist and community members from Sri Lanka and those in the diaspora, each weaving their own stories into a collective exploration. Together, they chart fragments, scars, and notes of self, refusing reduction, embracing contradiction, and giving form to the unbounded nature of belonging.