The works from the exhibition titled “Sri Sri Lanka”, feature a suite of Pala’s celebrated maps, on both paper and canvas. Each map delves into Sri Lanka’s rich historical past, and with each map, the artist attempts to decode another
aspect of the nation’s fraught identity. The artist works with maps carefully modifying and manipulating the image of Sri Lanka that is familiar to the viewer in its conventional form, but in this case has morphed beyond recognition. These works examine the post-colonial Sri Lankan identity, through the lens of a cartographer. It is through these maps and sculptures that the exhibition provides an insight to the politically biased, and often subjective notions of map-making.