#Muvindu Binoy

[oculablog]

Muvindu Binoy Tactical 01, 2022 Giclée print on archival photo paper Courtesy Saskia Fernando Gallery.

[imajeed]

“We only see the explosion, the divorce rates, the working life, and everything else people point to when they say, so easily, that there are no mothers anymore,” Muvindu says, “I have used an ethnographic portrait of a woman, but it is not representing or referring to ethnicity, it is about mothers these days. I’m saying that the woman in high heels can be a mother and you cannot judge her ability to be a mother on the size of her heels.”

Excerpt of my interview with Muvindu Binoy.

Read it in full here: https://roar.lk/arts-culture/the-journey-of-truth/

[muvindu]

MYTHOPOETIC 10, 2020 Mixed Media on Sketchbook Paper 21 x 30 cm 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in The sketches titled 'Mythopoetic' are an amalgamation of the movies I rewatched, the albums I play in the background, the beats I make between intervals and my chronic socializing via interwebs due to quarantine and curfews. I would play the anime Akira on mute, crank up some Rei Ami tunes, one eye reading Bukowski quotes and the other looking through my Instagram news feed. All these things are happening while I'm sketching, coloring and cut-pasting magazines. - Muvindu Binoy #mixmedia #sketchbook #artincurfew #quarantine #quarantineart #acrylic #mythopoetic #markmaking #comics #graffiti #saskiafernandogallery #srilanka #lka #muvindubinoy https://www.instagram.com/p/B-eeOhEhgDQ/?igshid=k2nsl7ju72nj

[yesyes-bread]

THE HOLY MERCHANDISE | MUVINDU BINOY from Saskia Fernando Gallery2 years agomore

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The concept of baby boomers as one might be aware is the generation born during Post World War II. I am not against them, but I disapprove of their misconception of the new youth. Sometimes it is hard to explain how we might find mental freedom within a gigabyte or why we hashtag (#) every life event. It is the desire of being significant and the beauty of being able to access the limitless.

These collages expand in 20 separate movements and within the motion I intend to interpret the diagnosis of the Internet culture (from nineties youth to late millennial). It is a non-dialectic narrative with lots of computer scanning, cut-pastes and digital textures. Every piece is consistent with a certain period of time. It is a structured interval to understand the current process of youth ideology, which is more prosthetic than organic. However, The Holy Merchandise is a synthesis. It is a pulp of many individual layers and it is purely dedicated to the generation who was born in 1989.

Marina Abramović once asked, “Because of technology, we don’t develop telepathy. We don’t use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?” My obligation is to ask, why not?

[nocterm]

Christopher Kulendran Thomas, NEW EELAM IN COLLABORATION WITH ANNIKA KUHLMANN 2017 Installation view, ‘moving is in every direction’, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, BerlinExperience suite with aquaponic farming system, straw bale walls, lightboxes, VR model and ‘60 million Americans can’t be wrong’ (HD video, 30 min) in collaboration with e Mycological Twist; featuring works by Juliette Bonneviot, Muvindu Binoy, Simon Denny and Mirak Jamal

[post-internet-studies]

CHRISTOPHER KULENDRAN THOMAS, 

NEW EELAM 2017

in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann

Experience suite with aquaponic farming system, straw bale walls, lightboxes, VR model and ‘60 million Americans can’t be wrong’ (HD video, 30 min)

Installation view, ‘moving is in every direction’, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

in collaboration with The Mycological Twist; featuring works by Juliette Bonneviot, Muvindu Binoy, Simon Denny and Mirak Jamal

© Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, SMB / Photo: Jan Windszus

New Eelam is a long-term artwork in the form of a startup. This real estate technology company has been founded by the artist - in collaboration with curator Annika Kuhlmann - to develop a flexible global housing subscription that aims to make homes as streamable as music or movies. The subscription-based model for a distributed housing system will offer global citizens flexible access to high-quality apartments around the world, while the trading of the revolving property portfolio can, over time, progressively subsidise the cost of the subscription. Basing the business plan on collective ownership rather than private property, New Eelam proposes a long-term strategy for how a new economic model could evolve out of the present system – through the luxury of communalism rather than of individual ownership.

Christopher Kulendran Thomas’ family is from a place that no longer exists. For three decades during the Sri Lankan civil war, Eelam was self-governed as an autonomous state led by a neo-Marxist revolution. But the Tamil people’s independence movement was crushed brutally in 2009 by an authoritarian government protected by the cloak of national sovereignty. Now, charting an alternative trajectory from one of the darkest chapters of the recent history of globalisation, Thomas asks what a new Eelam could be if it was reimagined as a distributed network rather than a territorially-bounded nation – a new Eelam for all, where citizenship could be a choice, not a hereditary privilege.

Christopher Kulendran Thomas works through the structural operations of art, by which art’s circulation and distribution produces reality. His ongoing work When Platitudes Become Form (ongoing since 2013) features original artworks by some of Sri Lanka’s foremost young contemporary artists, purchased in the island’s current ‘peacetime’ economic boom and then reconfigured for international circulation within Thomas’ own compositions. This process translates what counts as contemporary across the global contours of power by which the ‘contemporary’ itself is conditioned.

[oculablog]

Muvindu Binoy Fathomine, 2020 Giclée Print on Archival Photo Paper, Edition of 10 Courtesy Saskia Fernando Gallery.

[oculablog]

Muvindu Binoy Untitled 02 (2020) Mixed media on paper Courtesy Saskia Fernando Gallery.

[muvindu]

MYTHOPOETIC 14, 2020 Mixed Media on Sketchbook Paper 21 x 30 cm 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in The sketches titled 'Mythopoetic' are an amalgamation of the movies I rewatched, the albums I play in the background, the beats I make between intervals and my chronic socializing via interwebs due to quarantine and curfews. I would play the anime Akira on mute, crank up some Rei Ami tunes, one eye reading Bukowski quotes and the other looking through my Instagram news feed. All these things are happening while I'm sketching, coloring and cut-pasting magazines. - Muvindu Binoy #mixmedia #sketchbook #artincurfew #quarantine #quarantineart #acrylic #mythopoetic #markmaking #comics #graffiti #saskiafernandogallery #srilanka #lka #muvindubinoy https://www.instagram.com/p/CB4x4o8Bw0C/?igshid=lu2uq2xuhtqx

[muvindu]

MYTHOPOETIC 15, 2020 Mixed Media on Sketchbook Paper 21 x 30 cm 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in The sketches titled 'Mythopoetic' are an amalgamation of the movies I rewatched, the albums I play in the background, the beats I make between intervals and my chronic socializing via interwebs due to quarantine and curfews. I would play the anime Akira on mute, crank up some @rei.ami tunes, one eye reading Bukowski quotes and the other looking through my Instagram news feed. All these things are happening while I'm sketching, coloring and cut-pasting magazines. - Muvindu Binoy #mixmedia #sketchbook #artincurfew #quarantine #quarantineart #acrylic #mythopoetic #markmaking #comics #graffiti #saskiafernandogallery #srilanka #lka #muvindubinoy https://www.instagram.com/p/CAo518ahUcx/?igshid=1k8otwx70mkmk

[muvindu]

Anuk x Muvindu Binoy 2.0 NEW COLLECTION ! #anukxmuvindubinoy #limitededition #design #fashion #colombo #conceptstore #muvindubinoy (at PR Concept Store)

[muvindu]

2019 marked a decade since the war ended. And yet, the violence, divisions, anxiety, fear and hate, endures, despite promises of progress via a thin veneer of development and reconciliation. But what if we sought to challenge the way this day is portrayed? This series will seek to highlight multiple narratives around May 18. Some of them will be familiar, others less so. Some you will agree with and be partial to. Others, less so. The aim is not to convert, preach or project a single frame. It is to complicate narratives that we see, hear and read each year from other more prominent sources and voices, and suggest there are alternative ways of witnessing, reflecting and engaging. This collage by Muvindu Binoy attempts to capture these tensions. 10 Years After the War: Violence in a Time of Peace - Groundviews #collage #digitalcollage #kolaj #contemporary #lka #srilanka #groundviews #saskiafernandogallery #muvindubinoy https://www.instagram.com/p/B6_hT6wBtQw/?igshid=1m1jtw25g7hif

[muvindu]

ISLAND MENTALITY | Muvindu Binoy, 2018, Have You Ever Felt that the Apple of the Eye is a Seashell?, Archival Print, 30cm x 21cm (x3), Edition of 8 ⠀⠀ #saskiafernandogallery #islandmentality #exhibition #artexhibition #colombo #colomboartgallery #srilankanart #srilanka #contemporaryart #muvindubinoy

[muvindu]

ANUK X MUVINDU BINOY drops really soon! #style #fashion #srilanka #anukxmuvindubinoy

[muvindu]

ANUK X MUVINDU BINOY Coming soon. #anukxmuvindubinoy #fashion #srilanka #style

[imajeed]

Ajith Kumarasiri, Randhula de Silva and I, at a studio recording session, voicing Muvindu Binoy’s video poem for Cinnamon Colomboscope. Three poets converged to converse on what this city means to us.  Photo-credit: Pamuditha Zen Anjana (It was his birthday!)