Christopher Kulendran Thomas’ paintings metabolise Sri Lanka's colonial history, compressing multiple art historical timelines onto a single canvas. “The pools, daubs, scratches and thickly caked textures on his canvases punctuated with expressionist gestures may look like acts of human intuition but...in this exhibition Christopher Kulendran Thomas infects the myths of individual expression and freedom that underpin the cultural foundations of the European colonial project with seeds of doubt. That he does so through one of the few cultural traditions (painting, with its canonical structures of value) that has passed more or less unchallenged from colonial Europe to...postcolonial South Asia, is an act of quiet mischief.” – Excerpted from the exhibition essay by curator and writer, Hammad Nasar