22The One Year Drawing Project: May 2005–October 2007 (2008)

Muhanned Cader (b. 1966) , T. Shanaathanan (b. 1969), Chandraguptha Thenuwara (b. 1960), Jagath Weerasinghe (b. 1954)

Artists’ book

Courtesy the artists and Raking Leaves

First exhibited: ‘The One Year Drawing Project: May 2005– October 2007’, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Canada, 2009

‘The One Year Drawing Project’ is an artists’ book project that follows a 29-month drawing exchange between four artists. The project began in May 2005 with the creation of four drawings that were then exchanged between the four participating artists, to create further sequences of drawings. A time frame of 52 exchanges, corresponding to 52 weeks in a year was set at the outset of the project. In the end, the project took longer than a year and was completed in 18 months. Set against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan civil war, where notions of time disrupted almost every aspect of daily life, including the capacity to create art and exhibit, the project was an attempt to understand the relationship between time and the nature of dialogue within the context of a conflict. A timeline of events accompanying the book was compiled by artist and researcher Mariah Lookman.

Support Us

Support us to create Sri Lanka’s first publicly accessible museum of modern and contemporary art.

The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka invites you to get involved through becoming a member or making a donation to our activities. Join Us

Join Us