Muhanned Cader’s work often engages visualscapes – seascapes, landscapes, skyscapes – that the artist
subverts and distorts to address the cost of human impact. He deliberately composes visual narratives
that are simultaneously paradoxical – real and imagined, intimate experiences and distant memories. His
practice investigates the sociopolitical landscape of boundaries and territories that lie at the intersection
of the policies, practices, uses and abuses. He twists, inverts and fragments these images, leaving them
islanded within its frame. Within the context of this show, his work reminds the viewer that the violent
upheavals of the Sri Lankan conflict, affected the environment leaving behind desolation and loss. It
serves as a silent testament to humanscapes made bereft – devoid of people, history and memory. And
yet, tethered in place in irregular shapes, they reveal the impact of human hands, human neglect and
human desire. Presented alongside the works of his peers, Cader’s work challenges the casual disregard
for, and disconnection from place, space and environment in wartime narratives of violence. With its
starkly bordered and unpredictably misshapen windows into lush, beautiful vistas, he provokes the
audience to sit with their discomfort. And to awaken their consciousness to view war-torn land – stolen,
violated and occupied – as a victim of violence, rather than as a backdrop against which humans wage
their wars.

• After Aphantasias –  | Group Show

  September 14,2025-September 25,2025