Saskia Fernando Gallery

Upcoming: ‘Trapped in a Broken Dream, I Still Think of You’ by Jagath Weerasinghe

Jagath Weerasinghe’s upcoming solo exhibition examines a visual practice defined by a critical and philosophical engagement with systemic issues that shape contemporary global conflicts, to reveal the emotional undercurrents that lie beneath his intellectual inquiry.

Jagath Weerasinghe has been featured at Nature Morte, Delhi (2025); Grosvenor Gallery, London (2025); KALĀ, Colombo (2025); Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Colombo (2024); Colomboscope, Colombo (2022); Khoj, Delhi (2018); Art Dubai, Dubai (2018), Aicon Gallery, New York (2017); Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa (2016); Breese Little, London (2014); Colombo Art Biennale, Colombo (2012), Asia House, London (2011); Museum fur Volkerkunde Wien, Vienna (2009); Singapore Art Biennale, Singapore (2006); Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane (1999); Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka (1994).

Weerasinghe’s work belongs to collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, the Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, and Devi Art Foundation, Delhi.

Opening Preview: Thursday, 25.06.26 | 6pm - 8 pm

Exhibition Dates:
🗓️ 26.06.26 - 19.07.26
📍41 Horton Place, Colombo 07

Featuring : Moments Before Withering Series by Hashan Cooray

Drawing from biological studies and the artist’s practice of drying and separating flowers, Hashan Cooray breaks apart structures to decipher them. The Moment Before Withering reflects on the fragility of flowers and the unpredictability of the natural cycles they inhabit, using them as a metaphor for the human condition. It contemplates the transformations one undergoes over a lifetime, dwelling on the fleeting nature of existence and the delicate threshold between bloom and decay.

Artwork details:
Moment Before Withering XIII (2026), Mixed Media on Canvas, 123 x 92 cm
Moment Before Withering XIV (2026), Mixed Media on Canvas, 123 x 92 cm

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Celebrating Anushiya Sundaralingam on her birthday!

Anushiya's works are grounded in a deeply personal experience of leaving behind her homeland amidst the political instability in Sri Lanka. Her training as a printmaker seeps into her practice, as she shifts between collage, photography and painting. The evocative language inherent to the medium imbues her work with an immediacy and tension, underpinning the grief and hope of people living in conflict zones across continents.

“My work is deeply influenced by my surroundings and heritage, often experimenting with materials and methods to create pieces that are both visually striking and rich in meaning. This balance of innovation and tradition underpins my ongoing journey as an artist.” - Anushiya Sundaralingam

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Congratulations Thisath Thoradeniya on the opening of your new solo exhibition, ‘The Way You Like It'.

Thank you to everyone who attended the exhibition this evening.

The exhibition will be open for viewing
🗓️ Until 12 July 2026
📍138 Galle Road, Colombo 03

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Upcoming: The Way You Like It by Thisath Thoradeniya

Unfolding as a play dreamt on paper, Thisath Thoradeniya's upcoming solo exhibition, 'The Way You Like It' is a delightful examination of the human condition. Anchored on expressions of warmth, suspense, humor, and fear, Thoradeniya’s series of drawings and kinetic sculptures imagines life as an absurd theatre, inviting viewers to make sense of it while remaining aware of the impossibility of ever escaping it.

Thisath Thoradeniya, informed by the current socio-political climate, engages with the human condition; aspirations, tensions and challenges it presents. His practice combines painting, sculpture, and electro-mechanical and kinetic sculptural installations. His works were featured at Jaleh Gallery, Tehran (2019); Move on Asia, Seoul (2014); and in the Colombo Art Biennale, Colombo (2014); and the Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka (2008).

Fabienne Francotte employs fabric for the innate comfort carried in its folds, and its ability to conceal scars, while revealing a silent inner world as a metaphorical anchor on which she builds the thesis of her exhibition.

Anchoring itself on the unsaid, Francotte traces the physical contours of love with the intensity of a collision, laying bare a lifetime of experiences.

Imagined as a deck of tarot cards, the reading shifts with the viewer's experience of the subject - its open-ended ambiguity permitting the exhibition to contain infinite readings of an experience as universal and intoxicating as love.

ad vitam aeternam is on view until
🗓️ 15 June 2026
📍41 Horton Place, Colombo 07

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Artwork details: Fabienne Francotte, From Life II (2026), Mixed Media and Antique Fabric on Linen Canvas, 138 x 107 cm

Unapologetic, bold, and theatrical, Fabienne Francotte’s ad vitam aeternam unravels like a passionate affair, taking the viewer into the tangled tempest of emotions which is love. Tender and violent, the exhibition explores the unpredictable harmony of this emotion. Inspired by the obsession with the experience and love’s expression across time, particularly in South Asia, the artist’s exploration of the subject delves into the layered potency of love's passion and trauma.

Fabienne Francotte (b.1959, Brussels. Lives and works in Colombo, Brussels, and Skopelos) explores the possibilities of fabric, metal, and clay in her engagement with the aftermath of trauma, abuse, and migratory displacement. The artist often draws from her observations and experiences of people around her, including her own—transgressing the boundaries of culture, social, and economic classes. Francotte has concerned herself with a range of social issues present in Sri Lanka, such as education, the s*x industry, and religious tolerance. Francotte's training as a calligrapher is evident in her drawings, which showcase ritualistic ex*****on, balance, and precise, controlled gestures.

The exhibition will be open for viewing
🗓️ Until 15 June 2026
📍41 Horton Place, Colombo 07

Fabiene Francotte | ad vitam aeternam Unapologetic, bold, and theatrical, Fabienne Francotte’s ad vitam aeternam unravels like a passionate affair, taking the viewer into the tangled tempest of e...

Congratulations Fabienne Francotte on the opening of your new solo exhibition, ‘ad vital aeternam’.

Thank you to everyone who attended the exhibition last evening.

The exhibition will be open for viewing
🗓️ Until 15 June 2026
📍41 Horton Place, Colombo 07

🔗 Click the link in our bio for more info

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