MIG Inc 2026-06-19_27 SRI LANKAN ART EXHIBITION

Friday 19th -27th JUNE 2026

SRI LANKAN ART EXHIBITION

OPENING NIGHT
Friday 19 June, 6pm – 8pm

CONVERSATION SERIES
Sunday 21 June, 2pm
A space for shared dialogue and listening with artists and community members

 Off the Kerb  66B Johnston Street, Collingwood, VIC 3066

  This exhibition is an exploration of identity, fractured, layered, and constantly reshaped. For Sri Lankans who grew up in the shadow of war, economic collapse, ethnic divides, and faith tensions, identity has never been simple. It carries survival and memory, belonging and     exclusion, wounds that never fully close.  For the diaspora, another tension emerges: being caught between worlds. Between the cultures of home and elsewhere. Between memory and forgetting. Between inherited histories and the ones being made now.  Through painting and   artistic practice, the exhibition offers counter narratives to those that deny or erase these experiences: visual stories of grief and resilience, humour and love, the quiet acts of resistance that shape survival.  At the heart of the exhibition is the Identity Room, an immersive space for   written expression and reflection, holding poetry, prose, letters, fragments, and memories in any language carried from Sri Lanka. A space designed to hold both the spoken and the often unspoken.

  Proceeds from artwork sales support Nūl’s community-led work in Sri Lanka

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