INFO
ABOUT
Mayomi Basnayaka is a Sri Lankan contemporary artist. She was born in Saudi Arabia, raised in Japan, and was art and design educated in France. Being a citizen of everywhere and nowhere, her art reflects the complexities of multiculturalism. These ideas translate into her installation, performance art, and sculptural work by the subject of FOOD. Being the daughter of a Sri Lankan chef cooking Scandinavian cuisine, his battles between food and identity inspired her passion to explore and question our relationship with food. Interactive or visual, performance is at the core of her work, as seen in her collaborative thought-provoking dinners about climate change, to her solo food tools that enhance focus during the act of eating. Having been raised under conservative cultural and religious regimes, her work aims to question barriers around identity and encourages liberation from taboo associations between food, pleasure, and cultural identity.
EDUCATION
2016-20202019
EXHIBITION
Nudes for BLM for Intermissions |Online
Children of O at Mediamatic for Neo Futurist Dinners | Amsterdam, Netherlands EATMAD at Musee des Art Decoratif for Museum APIxMAD | Paris, France
Blank Page at The Mansion in Beirut Design Week for Souk-el-Hivos| Beirut, Lebanon
A Little Death at Komunuma for Everybody Dies But Me |Romainville, France
Jane Foe at Platforme Gallery for @non_site_specific| Paris, France
You Are What You Eat at Platforme Gallery for Small Works | Paris, France
Ceramic Dishware at Kodomonoshiro for Artscape Tokyo, Japan
Children of O at Mediamatic for Neo Futurist Dinners | Amsterdam, Netherlands EATMAD at Musee des Art Decoratif for Museum APIxMAD | Paris, France
Blank Page at The Mansion in Beirut Design Week for Souk-el-Hivos| Beirut, Lebanon
A Little Death at Komunuma for Everybody Dies But Me |Romainville, France
Jane Foe at Platforme Gallery for @non_site_specific| Paris, France
You Are What You Eat at Platforme Gallery for Small Works | Paris, France
Ceramic Dishware at Kodomonoshiro for Artscape Tokyo, Japan
PRESS
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“And Endurance Finds Its Efficacy” by Malcom Peacock at Flat Rate Contemporary
“Behind the Lense Plus” by Grace Marie Dewitt at RI Center of Photographic Art “Photography Print Sales for Anti-Racist Actionn and Social Change” by Humble Arts Foundation “During Children of O you drink cola instead of water” by Lisa Appels at Het Parol
“Children of O with Design Academy” by Ooze.nl
“Souk-el-Hivos by Beirut Design Week
“Behind the Lense Plus” by Grace Marie Dewitt at RI Center of Photographic Art “Photography Print Sales for Anti-Racist Actionn and Social Change” by Humble Arts Foundation “During Children of O you drink cola instead of water” by Lisa Appels at Het Parol
“Children of O with Design Academy” by Ooze.nl
“Souk-el-Hivos by Beirut Design Week