THE HINDU
By Harshini Vakkalanka
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| "Budha" (Mixed Media on Paper) |
INDIA - As the world grows smaller, everybody experiences a conflict of identity and questions it, says artist Anurendra Jegadeva. It's literally an ABCD scenario at Anurendra Jegadeva's exhibition “
Strange Paradise: Memories of Empire, The Gods & Mulligatawny Soup." He has even done a whole series of A-Z paintings depicting terms related to his identity, like A for ancestors, B for butterfly (a self-portrait) and C for change. “Though I'm a fifth-generation Sri Lankan Tamil staying in Malaysia, I'm aligned to the idea of Mother India. My religious and social idols are people from Chandrasekhar Bose to Gandhiji and Kamal Hassan. I explore the tensions between my identities as a Malaysian with a Western outlook with an Indian Hindu past. “Strange Paradise” will be on view at
Gallery Sumukha 24/10 BTS Depot Road, Wilson Garden, until December 15. [
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| Artist Anurendra Jegadeva |
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| "Ketu" (Mixed Media on Paper) |
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