Nanelle Jayawardene

This series explores communication not only as language, but as cultural performance: the slippages between what is spoken, understood, concealed, and retold. Drawing from architectural space, ritual performance, folklore, and hospitality, the works stage encounters between figures who occupy different systems of meaning. Through masks, gestures, interiors, and theatrical characters, the series examines storytelling as both an act of communication and a form of dissembling.