© Lionel Wendt, Still Life with mask and statue, c.1942
Installation view of When Colours Return Home to Light V & VII, Bridge to Lanka, Jhaveri Contemporary, 2024
Installation view of When Colours Return Home to Light V, VII & IX, Bridge to Lanka, Jhaveri Contemporary, 2024
Installation view of When Colours Return Home to Light VII, Bridge to Lanka, Jhaveri Contemporary, 2024
When Colours Return Home to Light IV, 2024, Photogram enlarger silver print 226.5 x 127 cm 89 3/16 x 50 inches
Installation view of When Colours Return Home to Light IX, Bridge to Lanka, Jhaveri Contemporary, 2024
When Colours Return Home to Light IX, 2024 Photogram enlarger silver print 74.2 x 57.8 cm 29 3/16 x 22 3/4 inches
Installation view of When Colours Return Home to Light VII, Bridge to Lanka, Jhaveri Contemporary, 2024
When Colours Return Home to Light IX, 2024 Photogram enlarger silver print 74.2 x 57.8 cm 29 3/16 x 22 3/4 inches
Installation view of When Colours Return Home to Light IX & VII, Bridge to Lanka, Jhaveri Contemporary, 2024
Installation view of When Colours Return Home to Light V, Bridge to Lanka, Jhaveri Contemporary, 2024
Installation view of When Colours Return Home to Light V, Bridge to Lanka, Jhaveri Contemporary, 2024
When Colours Return Home to Light V, 2024 Photogram enlarger silver print 231.5 x 127 cm 91 1/8 x 50 inches
Installation view of When Colours Return Home to Light V, Bridge to Lanka, Jhaveri Contemporary, 2024
Installation view of When Colours Return Home to Light V, Bridge to Lanka, Jhaveri Contemporary, 2024
Installation view of When Colours Return Home to Light V, Bridge to Lanka, Jhaveri Contemporary, 2024
Installation view of When Colours Return Home to Light VII, Bridge to Lanka, Jhaveri Contemporary, 2024
Installation view of When Colours Return Home to Light I-III from Pivot, Glide, Echo, The Lionel Wendt Art Center, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2024, curatorial advisor Sandhini Poddar
Installation view of When Colours Return Home to Light I-II from Pivot, Glide, Echo, The Lionel Wendt Art Center, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2024, curatorial advisor Sandhini Poddar
Installation view of When Colours Return Home to Light I & III from Pivot, Glide, Echo, The Lionel Wendt Art Center, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2024, curatorial advisor Sandhini Poddar
Installation view of When Colours Return Home to Light I with Untitled, Lionel Wendt, from Pivot, Glide, Echo, The Lionel Wendt Art Center, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2024, curatorial advisor Sandhini Poddar
Installation view of When Colours Return Home to Light III with Anar, film installation from Pivot, Glide, Echo, The Lionel Wendt Art Center, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2024, curatorial advisor Sandhini Poddar
Installation view of When Colours Return Home to Light III from Pivot, Glide, Echo with Untitled, George Keyt and Untitled, Lionel Wendt, The Lionel Wendt Art Center, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2024, curatorial advisor Sandhini Poddar
Installation view of Untitled, Lionel Wendt from Pivot, Glide, Echo, The Lionel Wendt Art Center, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2024, curatorial advisor Sandhini Poddar
When Colours Return Home to Light VIII, 2024 Photogram enlarger silver print 81 x 61.5 cm 31 7/8 x 24 3/16 inches
When Colours Return Home to Light VII, 2024 Photogram enlarger silver print 213.5 x 127 cm 84 1/16 x 50 inches
In Progress; When Colours Return Home to Light is a contemporary collaboration with the work of Sri Lankan modernist photographer Lionel Wendt (1900-1944) exploring the themes of diasporic identity, post-colonialism and trans-nationalism and uses the object of Wendt’s photo book Ceylon, published posthumously in London, 1950 as it’s starting point.