Contact: 07734682510
chrisilankovan@hotmail.com
Based in London, UK
Ilankovan’s work looks to reveal implicit social structures and hidden power relations through the creation of a visual narrative rooted in personal cultural references. The artist's Sri Lankan heritage provides a strong foothold for works based on domestic and mundane situations. These suggest heavier socio-political discrepancies that exist within the caste system in Southern Asia. Serial repetition of a warped order recurs throughout his practice with the use of materials and specific components appearing in several pieces. Motifs are duplicated through such processes as scanning, photocopying and mark-making. Drawing is integral to and immediate in Ilankovan's art, giving scope to record, narrate and reference. It proposes a primitive counting process which, rather than amounting to a quantative figure, evokes an impression of history.
EDUCATION
2008-2011 Wimbledon College of Art
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting
2007-2008 Foundation in Art and Design, Arts Institute at Bournemouth
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Mileskm, Tabacalera, Madrid
A Collaboration with Sergio Espinosa, April 7th 2011
Close Quarters, Vyner Street Gallery, Vyner Street, London
February 2-8th 2011
On Board, Tram and Social, Tooting, London
January 17th 2011
Borders and Edges, Wave 2010, Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon, London
September 2010
Panic Wagon, Fold Gallery, London Fields, London
Collaboration with Dominic Letschka, 2-4th July 2010
Moncom cheben, Trinity Road, Wimbledon, London
Collaboration with Matio Jobbe Duval, 3-10th February 2010
CURATION
On Board, Tram and Social, Tooting, London
January 17th 2011
On Board 2, Tram and Social, Tooting, London
28th March 2011
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