‘Quest’ combines digital art with provocative words, music, performance and video installation. Quest offers a glimpse of what is possible if we work toward peace and healing. Quest was exhibited for a short time only at The National Art Gallery. Click here to go to the Quest Exhibition

Quest, which has been three years in the making, is Anoma’s first exhibition of Digital Art. The installation stems from her travels throughout Sri Lanka , from Jaffna to Matara to Colombo, and depicts the struggles of ordinary Sri Lankans in the face of both natural and man-made disasters. Some of the images have barely been altered. Others are layered, fused, blurred, and sharpened. Quotes from philosophers, politicians, authors and ordinary citizens create a dialogue with the images. The quotes are in all three languages spoken in Sri Lanka. Within an adjoining space, a multi screen video installation incorporating performance art was on continuous display.

This collection embraces the medium of digital art and video installation and incorporates elements of images, colours, words, sounds and movement. The photographs are deconstructed, layered, and manipulated. They range from stark reality to the surreal. Some images of devastation are transformed into images of harmony - a glimpse of the possible.

At a time of declining hopes, Anoma offers a call for reconciliation that is both poetic and accessible. Together, the words and images form an invitation to action, for each of us to take responsibility for our part in beginning the process of healing. While this project began with the ceasefire agreement of 2002, its message now feels woefully urgent.