Vajira Gunawardena's resent work presents creatively compacted
day today life fundamentally deal with the penetration of the mysteries in to normalcy.
In the works from his exhibition held at the Paradise Road Galleries in Sri
Lanka ‘Reborn in Virtual Fiction World’, we see wired looking human faces,
drawn using bright colours. An idyllic sense, paintings seems colourful, but in
a second glance it seems not that colourful. It shows something familiar yet
unsure, unsettling our vision and somewhat inexplicable because screaming faces,
wide open eyes, gestural hand signs, popular symbols, and imageries of facade
as well as skeletons symbolize something beneath the colourful world we live. Vajira's
painting have being inventing the world we live-in with a different angle as
they are about the inventions of world. There is a pleasure and enjoyment to be
had in viewing this work, but we cannot easily escape from the work as we
invited to comprehend what is going on within these vibrant colour passages.
