ABOUT ARTIST

Bandu Manamperi holds a BFA in sculpture and is a core member of Colombo’s Theertha Artists’ Collective. One of the initiators of the performance in art in Sri Lanka, Bandu remains one of the leading performance artists in active at present. He creates highly personal art experiences based on the transformation of his own body. his at practice also encompasses sculpture, drawing, painting, and installation art. He lectures and consults widely on a range of topics including contemporary art, performance, museology, and local craft traditions. Manamperi’s praxis brings together notions of memory and demonstrates how the effects of external events and doctrines are absorbed into the individual’s being through the body to create memories that become inscribed within us.