Artist Walkthrough | Go Home is Within Me

Go Home is Within Me is foregrounded in rebellion. Resilience and solidarity fuel the imagination. They become totems to reassess dreams. The emotionally charged atmosphere of the Aragalaya (in the aftermath of the 2022 economic collapse in Sri Lanka) catapulted a political awakening, the ripple effects of which moved through South Asia. Contained within its spontaneity was the zeal to overcome a bleak future muddled with uncertainty. Pradeep Thalawatta excavates this momentum, renewing submerged public, political, and personal aspirations through the body of work in the exhibition.

Thalawatta’s works were recently exhibited at Latitude 28, New Delhi (2025); SOAS Gallery, London (2025); and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Colombo (2024). His works are held in the permanent collections of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, and the Millesgården Museum, Sweden. He is a recipient of the prestigious UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute for South Asian Arts scholarship.