Invitation | Christopher Kulendran Thomas 'Safe Zone' Opening

We are excited to announce the opening of Christopher Kulendran Thomas’s solo exhibition Safe Zone at Artspace on Thursday 13 November, 6–8pm. 

Christopher Kulendran Thomas uses artificial intelligence technologies to examine the foundational fictions of Western individualism and the complex legacies of imperialism. He is an artist of Eelam Tamil descent, who spent his formative years in London after his family left escalating ethnic violence in their homeland. His exhibition Safe Zone, conceived together with longterm collaborator Annika Kuhlmann, combines painting and television—two historical mediums of soft power. It juxtaposes a video work of infinite duration that continually auto-edits American television footage first broadcast in the moments before the world-changing events of September 11, 2001, with 12 expressionistic paintings based on AI-generated images that depict a largely undocumented massacre on a beach in Sri Lanka in 2009, perpetrated in the wake of the 'War on Terror'.