Pavitra Wickramasinghe
Pavitra Wickramasinghe is a multidisciplinary artist mainly concerned with new ways of conceptualizing the moving image and conventions of seeing. Her practice is guided by wonder and the need to know how things work; to break down motion, videos and screens to their most elementary steps and builds them up again. Her current work is an exploration of notions of traveling, fluidity of place and memory. She uses light and shadows as extensions of the projected image to create installations where the viewer occupies filmic space instead of being physically removed from the work.
Pavitra Wickramasinghe was born in Sri Lanka and currently lives and works in Montréal. Selected exhibitions include: Kinetica Art Fair (UK), SIGHTINGS- Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Montréal), Yeosu International Art Festival (South Korea), Centre des Arts Enghien-les-Bains (France), Cable Factory (Finland), Stuttgart Filmwinter (Germany), Centro Cultural del Matadero (Spain), Galerie B-312 (Montréal) and Truck Gallery (Calgary) among others. She is a recipient of numerous residencies, awards and grants including, Art Omi (NY), La Chambre Blanche (Québec), Pépinières Européennes pour jeunes artistes, (Spain), UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme, Changdong Art Studio, National Museum of Contemporary Art (South Korea), Canada Council for the Arts and The Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art.