Michella Perera
Irish-Sri Lankan artist, based in the United Kingdom. Recent shows include City as Stage at the Serendipity Arts Festival in Panjim, Goa, India. Upcoming solo show at Pallas P/S Dublin, Ireland.
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Perera’s practice is the sensorial story of movement, cultural taboo, and the realisation of new intimate relationships with cultural material beyond the familial and the traditional.
She is drawn to the constantly shifting practice of myth-making that arises from personal interactions, movement, miscommunication and translation. The ensuing worlds develop adjacent to notions of “authenticity,” drawing its power, not from a prescriptive adherence to historic ideas but an evolving understanding of the self in relation to cultural material.
Cool Drinks, Short Eats and the Curve of a Punctuation Mark 2023
Michella Perera is a Sri Lankan-Irish artist who graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2017 with an MFA. Her practice incorporates participatory events which function as a research tool, allowing her to explore the impact of cultural practices on communities, and integrate in the shared storytelling of neighbourhoods.
