Christopher Kulendran Thomas

The painting by Kulendran Thomas’ is composed using a neural network trained on the work of successive generations of Sri Lanka’s most celebrated artists influenced by the European modernisms brought to the island by colonial settlers. Embodying the Western idea of the individual that is encoded into that canon, layered hybrid compositions – uncannily familiar and yet alien – are brought to life through deliberate brushwork, with painterly gestures that slip across art historical timelines. The many stages of this complex process, reanimate the digital fragments with a very human tactility.