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GPS drawing: Killinochi to Vavuniya, Train, 2011 (2011)

Sketchbook, pen on paper Sketchbook, pen on paper First exhibited: ‘one hundred thousand small tales’, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2018 Muhanned Cader began his ongoing GPS drawing series while living in Jaffna. The artist makes the works by placing a sketchbook on his lap and allowing the nib of a pen to move in Read More
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Barrelism Tourist Map (1997)

Watercolour, poster Courtesy the artist and Saskia Fernando Gallery First exhibited: ‘Barrelism and Other Works’, The Heritage Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1997 In 1997 Chandraguptha Thenuwara purchased a map from the Survey Department of Sri Lanka. On the map, the artist marked all the military/police checkpoints in Colombo, added a border made up of camouflaged Read More
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C-type photographs Private collection, Colombo First exhibited: ‘Afterlife’, Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2016 Mullivaikkal, located in the northeast of Sri Lanka is a coastal shoreline often synonymous with the final stages of the civil war, where Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels fought their last stand before being defeated by the Sri Read More
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C-type photographs Private collection, Colombo First exhibited: ‘Afterlife’, Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2016 Mullivaikkal, located in the northeast of Sri Lanka is a coastal shoreline often synonymous with the final stages of the civil war, where Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels fought their last stand before being defeated by the Sri Read More
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Fig. 1 90° 18’ 43.057 N 80° 47’ 11.726, E (2014)

C-type photographs Private collection, Colombo First exhibited: ‘Afterlife’, Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2016 Mullivaikkal, located in the northeast of Sri Lanka is a coastal shoreline often synonymous with the final stages of the civil war, where Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels fought their last stand before being defeated by the Sri Read More
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