Rajni Perera is a Toronto based artist seeking for a larger place where to work. Her studio out of Kensington market is next to explode due to her large-scale canvases that are continuing to ramp up.
For instance, her last series titled Surreal Body is composed of seven large-scale canvases, and apart from the physicality, her body of work is also big in spirit.
“I explore issues of hybridity, sacrilege, irreverence, the indexical sciences, ethnography, gender, sexuality, popular culture, deities, monsters and dream worlds. All of these themes marry in a newly objectified realm of mythical symbioses”. This is what she states about her artistic workflow.
She expresses her intentions using a deep language to deconstruct the non-European vision of the female versus the male, questioning the contemporary aesthetic of human genders through the eye of a non-European culture. She considers, for example, the Hindu and Tantric gods to explain it.
Rajni builds her work upon a subversive language to let the viewer feel restored and not repressed anymore.
Originally from Sri Lanka, Rajni Perera was raised between her homeland, Australia, and Canada. She graduated from The Ontario College of Fine Art in 2014 and was presented with the medal for Drawing and Painting in her year while she was at it. Rajni Perera works through her own identity issues, namely being a non-white artist creating non-white works, by envisioning the place of the diasporic person in a surreal future.
To view more of Rajni Perera’s work, go here.
