The term ‘foreigner’ is commonly used to describe someone from another country. Can a foreigner, however, just as easily be someone who inhabits another identity, speaks another language, or is from another community? Moreover, can a foreigner be someone who straddles multiple identities, languages, and communities without neatly belonging to one?
Curated by Sandev Handy and Sharmini Pereira, ‘The Foreigners’ brings together the works of 15 contemporary artists, who use varying media to address the entangled ways in which foreignness is inscribed onto them, marking them as strangers, outsiders, or transgressors. Together their works resist, reimagine, and re-mix well-worn tropes of how otherness is categorised and foreignness is perceived.
Programme
- ‘The Foreigners’ exhibition
Admission free (including all events)
4 May–22 October 2023
Ground Floor, Crescat Boulevard, 89, Galle Road, Colombo 03 - Public Programmes for ‘The Foreigners’
All public programmes including material needed for workshops are free. Registration and more details can be found on the MMCA Sri Lanka website and Eventbrite page.
4 May–22 October 2023
Ground Floor, Crescat Boulevard, 89, Galle Road, Colombo 03
About Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka
The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka (MMCA Sri Lanka) is an education-led initiative that aims to establish a public museum dedicated to the display, research, collection, and conservation of modern and contemporary art in Sri Lanka for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public, schools and tourists.
The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka is based in Sri Lanka. It currently lives and works locally without a fixed location. Over the coming years the museum will inhabit different physical locations on a project-by-project basis.