{"uid":"HAp3K2BPD9x81jgK","type":"artist","tags":["instalation"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"Performing Home","summary":"Perera\u2019s work examines the intersection between our prevalent culture of tourism and the fictionalisation of culture within \u2018exotic\u2019 countries resulting in the obfuscation of cultural artefacts. She delineates her relationship to cultural tourism, especially evident during her visits to her country of birth (Sri Lanka). She draws on our expectations of \u2018enrichment through travelling\u2019, and what objects of culture might signify when their originating context is removed and presented within a cross-cultural setting. The sculptural installations feature details of the human form, alluding to ancient statuary but adopting the body language of the contemporary individual. These are positioned with\/against works that engage with traditional imagery, forms, and craft practices from the Indian subcontinent and reproductions of typical and souvenir objects.\nIn doing so, the artist performs the writing of sacred spaces into the domestic and the public, considering the way in which the dislocation of the souvenir object relocates significance through what is brought to it and what is brought back from it. Perera\u2019s sculptures investigate the fetishization and commodification of  \u2018found\u2019 cultural objects and the push and pull of the identifiable\/unidentifiable. Perera reconfigures objects of touristic attraction, the disposable and the novelty curiosa, and through the juxtaposition of the two draws on the potential for new realities that perform the aforementioned fictionalization.","space":"Ideally the exhibition space would be an indoor space whose architecture could be read as domestic, as such, prior to being a gallery, the space may have been a domestic environment. White walled gallery within Europe\/North America where the practice of collecting items from \"exotic\" developing countries is prevalent. Dimensions could vary, but ideally a medium sized space (one or two rooms) to fully experience the installation as a whole.","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":null,"audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"fileCount":10,"names":"Michella","surname":"Perera","email":"michella.perera@gmail.com","dni_type":"PASAPORTE","dni":"PC9677055","address":"1\/1 82 Prince Edward Street","city":"Glasgow","nacionality":"Irish","country_id":"81","birthdate":"1992-02-29T00:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1992-02-29T00:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+447490179407","web":"https:\/\/www.michellaperera.com\/"}