"Too Bad, So Sad, Maybe Next Birth" by Artist Shyama Golden

"A selection of recent paintings by Sri Lankan-American artist Shyama Golden. Born in Texas, Golden's work utilizes world-building and narrative to reveal the constructed nature of identity. The series, "Too Bad, So Sad, Maybe Next Birth," exhibited at PM/AM gallery in London earlier this year. The paintings follow the idea of past lives and deaths as Golden charts her own over the past 200 years."

""The shapeshifting character Maya wears a ghillie suit and Kolam masks to perform different social roles and phases I've inhabited throughout the years.""

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Shyama Golden is a Sri Lankan-American painter born in Texas who uses world-building and narrative to reveal identity as constructed. The series Too Bad, So Sad, Maybe Next Birth charts imagined past lives and deaths across the past 200 years. The paintings stage a shapeshifting protagonist, Maya, who wears a ghillie suit and Kolam masks to perform different social roles and phases. The work maps personal and cultural transformations through costume, ritual, and invented histories. The series was shown at PM/AM gallery in London earlier this year, situating the work within contemporary exhibition contexts.

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