Rajni Perera (she/her) was born in Sri Lanka and lives and works in Toronto. She explores issues of hybridity, sacrilege, irreverence, the indexical sciences, ethnography, gender, sexuality, popular culture, deities, monsters, and dream worlds. These themes marry in a newly objectified realm of mythical symbioses and counteract oppressive discourses. Her art has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the Phi Foundation (Montreal), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Toronto), The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Gwangju Biennale (South Korea), Colomboscope (Sri Lanka), and Eastside Projects (United Kingdom) among others. She is in numerous collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the Museé des Beaux-Arts, the McMicheal Gallery, and the Sobey Foundation.

The power exhibition offers artworks that challenge dominant capitalist and state capitalist worldviews. These Toronto-based artists use their eloquent sculpture, drawing, painting, installation, and video practices to inspire and reflect ways of being that reposition the meaning of power to be grounded in respect, cooperation, and emotional intelligence.

Curated by Lisa Deanne Smith

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