Dilohana sits with her hand on her chin, looking serious, in front of a projection of her video work.
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Dilohana Lekamge

Dilohana Lekamge is a Pōneke based visual artist, writer and curator. Her visual practice consists of live-performance and performance-based video works—predominantly focusing on her experience of diaspora and migration as a Sri Lankan New Zealander.

Dilohana Lekamge on CIRCUIT · 2 works

Dola Duka
Dilohana Lekamge

Dola Duka (2016)

Honeycomb and honey are used to irritate and soothe the region over which the ovaries are located in the female body.

Dola Duka
Kili (Ritual Impurity)
Dilohana Lekamge

Kili (Ritual Impurity) (2016)

Facing the camera a female performer claws at her lower torso, washes herself, and finally covers herself in a light fabric.

Kili (Ritual Impurity)

Writing & podcasts featuring Dilohana Lekamge

A word document displaying someone memory of the plot from a television soap opera

Worth Your While: A Conversation with Elisabeth Pointon, Dilohana Lekamge, and Laura Duffy

InterviewUiuinga
By Laura Duffy · October 23, 2018

Curated by Laura Duffy, worth your while is an installation for public art space Masons Screen. Here, Duffy talks to Elisabeth Pointon and Dilohana Lekamge about their work.

Worth your while: A conversation with Elisabeth Pointon, Dilohana Lekamge and Laura Duffy
Vacuum-sealed rugby ball coated with semen

Pool Party

Exhibition reviewArotakenga
By Hamish Win · January 1, 2017

A group show at artist-run space MEANWHILE.

Pool Party, MEANWHILE, Wellington

CIRCUIT projects featuring Dilohana Lekamge

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