"Her work culls imagery and tropes from diverse source material, from global historical epic and mythology to 1980's American Sci-Fi Action films. She weaves past and present, fiction and fact, into complex narrative structures that raise poignant questions about the critical role of myth in structuring our contemporary landscape. Often surreal, uncanny, and rigorously made, her work speaks to the power of speculative fiction to reveal, much like science fiction itself, hidden truths that realism cannot."
"In her drawings and paintings, monsters, animals, feminine figures, and strange hybrids populate chimaeric dream worlds where the known and unknown commingle. Futurity, femininity, migration, and globalization are recurring themes throughout her work, which centers the feminine body as both a map of our contemporary landscape and a site of resistance. Four new corporeal sculptures ask us to reflect upon what burdens that body is tasked to carry and the weight of responsibility it is expected to hold."
Dhum Lōkaya presents recent multidisciplinary works by Rajni Perera in the United States for the first time after exhibitions in Canada and abroad. The practice spans drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation, combining artisanal methods with critical discourse to challenge oppressive ideologies and imagine new futures. A mythology cultivated over two decades draws from global historical epics, mythology, and 1980s American sci‑fi films to weave past and present, fiction and fact. Surreal images—monsters, animals, feminine figures, and hybrids—populate chimeric dream worlds where speculative fiction reveals truths realism cannot. Themes of futurity, femininity, migration, and globalization center the feminine body as a map and site of resistance, with four new sculptures probing burdens and responsibility.
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