ArtAsiaPacific

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Founded in 2013, Colomboscope is an interdisciplinary festival based in Sri Lanka, bringing together artistic practices from South Asia and beyond through exhibitions and performances staged across Colombo. Led by artistic director Natasha Ginwala with guest curator Hajra Haider Karrar, its ninth edition, “Rhythm Alliances,” approaches rhythm as a working premise rather than a prescriptive theme, opening onto questions of embodiment, transmission, and mediation.

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At Radicle Gallery, a former colonial-era commercial office building, the exhibition centers distilled forms and modes of communication that operate at the edge of language... Questions of absence and displacement surface in Seher Shah’s Woven Nights (2025), a series of concertina book of monotypes and shadow prints installed in undulating waves, where absence registers more sonorously than presence. This work accompanies her poetry volume Between a Home and a Horizon (2025)—translated into both Tamil and Sinhala—which traces ambivalent impressions of displacement and hope drawn from the artist’s decade in New Delhi.