Sarah Milroy in Conversation and Forming Futures Art Party organized by Surrey Art Gallery
January 25, 2025

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This is a public event.

 

Sarah Milroy in Conversation and Forming Futures Art Party organized by Surrey Art Gallery

January 25, 2025 | 6:00-9:00 PM

 

Experimenting with mediums as varied as painting, sculpture, and photography, Toronto-based artist Rajni Perera expresses her vision of imagined futures in which mutated subjects adapt to exist in dystopian realms through strength and resilience. Perera draws deeply on the artistic traditions of Sri Lanka, her childhood home. Indian miniature painting, medieval armour, South Asian textiles, and science fiction also factor into her body of work that spans feminist and diasporic narratives while contemplating survival in an environmentally degraded future. 

 

  • 6:00 – Meet in front of Cheryl Pagurek’s work Winter Garden which is located on the media wall in the mid-lobby of Surrey Art Gallery. We will start with a welcome and short introduction to the exhibition Rajni Perera: Futures by Terry Jenkins-Bricel and Emily Butler.
  • 6:30 approx. – Proceed to the studio theatre for the evening events including the discussion by curator Sarah Milroy of the exhibition Rajni Perera: Futures 
  • The discussion will be followed by the Forming Futures Art Party until 9:00 PM

 

This exhibition is organized and circulated by the McMichael CanadianArt Collection. It is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue featuring an interview with the artist by curator Sarah Milroy, as well as essays by leading international literary figures Fariha Róisín and Britt Wray. Surrey Art Gallery is the only West Coast stop on the tour.

 

We hope you can join us!

 

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Image credit: Rajni Perera, Storm (detail), 2020, mixed media on marbled paper, 76.2 × 61 cm, James McKellar. Photo courtesy of Patel Brown © Rajni Perera.
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Art, Upcoming