‘Three Songs of Ceylon’ opens on 23 January 2026!
Three Songs of Ceylon
23 January–11 February 2026
The Stables, Park Street Mews
‘Three Songs of Ceylon’ takes as its starting point ‘The Song of Ceylon’ (1934), a film commissioned by the Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board under British colonial rule.
This exhibition traces how, in the decades that followed, two artists re-visited this film from two distinct vantage points, each producing an alternate ‘song’ as a response.
By bringing together each of these three songs of Ceylon into conversation with recent moving image works by contemporary artists, this exhibition explores how stories are told, retold, and unsettled through the medium of moving images.
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Reading Group - 31 May 2024
‘Imagining Minnette’ with Irushi Tennekoon and Ruhanie Perera
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Reading Group: ‘On Minnette De Silva and Architectural Method’ with Tariq Jazeel
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Workshop - 1 June 2024
‘Creating a Stamp of Minnette’ with Kiyawana Muddara (for ages 18 and above)
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‘Comic Making and Storytelling’ with Shenuka Corea (for ages 16 and above)
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