Saskia Fernando Gallery is pleased to present Last Page of the Textbook by Muvindu Binoy. The exhibition includes collage, digital collage and video installation. Binoy's narrative spreads across visual and graphical mixes, uncommon experiments with technology, and at times process disruption of tools, kneejerk met poetics on Instagram, loops and skits, scribbles on fine art and surfaces, extended playlists and films; often placing together the contrasts of the new and ancient, reality and myth, good and the ugly.
Muvindu Binoy (b.1989, Colombo) is a multidisciplinary artist who for the last decade has been setting the trend in the digital space, challenging conventions and adopting technological shifts with bold unhinged creativity. The artist's negotiation with generative AI and the endless repository of images available through the internet becomes a testament to the flux created by rapidly expanding fields of information and Binoy's mastery in finding compositional harmonies within the ensuing clamour. Binoy creates digital collages that mediate existence in modern society and 'online' realities with satire and absurdist humour. Binoy through his digital engagement explores themes of gender, agency, identity and the contradictions of traditional values and contemporary realities through the digital manipulation and doctoring of images. The artist instinctively and innately responds to generated imagery, creating a final composition that overflows with a striking visual surplus while bearing a distinct signature.
Paradise Road Saskia Fernando Gallery (PRSFG) is the merger of two of Sri Lanka’s most celebrated art institutions—Paradise Road Galleries, established in 1998 by Kalasuri Udayshanth Fernando, and Saskia Fernando Gallery, founded in 2009. This partnership combines the legacy of Paradise Road Galleries, renowned for showcasing modernist masters like Lionel Wendt and George Claessen, with Saskia Fernando Gallery’s pioneering role in representing contemporary Sri Lankan art internationally.
