Katchip Porul (Visual Object / Meaning):
An Art History Workshop
At : Sri Lankan Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design
14 November 2026
10.00-16.00
This workshop seeks to unpack the reciprocal relationship between images and history by examining how images shape historical understanding and how historical processes, in turn, shape the meanings of images. Moving beyond traditional iconographic analysis and representational theories of art, it situates the art object within the broader social, cultural, political, and institutional networks through which meaning is produced.
An Arch in Motion: Drawing, Architectural Knowledge and the Making of a Threshold in Jaffna – Aousten Aloysious
A Monument in Motion: The Nallur Mancham and Trans-regional Cultural Networks in the Early Twentieth Century – Sivakumaran Gajahvathanan
The Social Life of a Stool: Furniture and Identities in Colonial Jaffna –Pirintha Kulasingam
Cultural life of Maaru Veli – Ramanathan Dhananjayan
The Journey of a Wartime Photograph: Circulation, Use and Reinterpretation– Rukshana Velautham
A Cartography: Mapping Homeland and Nation in Sri Lanka – Stephan Kirubalini
Object of silent witness – Uthumalebbe Iffath Neetha
Organized by : Sri Lankan Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design
