#Rajni Perera

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Rajni Perera. I Couldn’t Wait Longer, 2023.

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I Speak Of Everything, Rajni Perera, 2021

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Artist's Talk: Rajni Perera

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Jeffrey Deitch's "Wonder Women"

Wonder Women, Jeffrey Deitch’s trailblazing show, is now on display at their Los Angeles gallery on 925 N. Orange Drive till October 22, 2022. Kathy Huang, the curator of the show, also serves as Managing Director, Art Advisory and Special Projects at Jeffrey Deitch. The exhibition was first presented in New York in May 2022 and featured thirty Asian American, diasporic, and non-binary artists displaying themes of wonder, self, and identity through figuration. The expanded version of the show features forty artists.

Excerpt from Mash.

Text by Shreya Ajmani

Work by Sahana Ramakrishnan. Photo by Joshua White (@joshuawhitephotography)

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Rajni Perera, a multimedia artist based in Toronto, is the cover artist for Hiatus Kaiyote's 2024 album Love Heart Cheat Code.

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Lover Not a Fighter | chalk, charcoal, moonstones, acrylic gouache on polyester with aluminum | 36” X 48” 

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Floating skin / Vibrant Mind, Rajni Perera, 2021

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Hiatus Kaiyote Announces Love Heart Cheat Code & Release Make New Friends

Hiatus Kaiyote announces their next album, Love Heart Cheat Code, and drops the single "Make Friends."  A band member heard someone say "You don't make friends, you recognize them" and this inspired their new single. Lead singer Nai Palm starts the song with those words and puts her emotions into describing the soulful journey to friendship. She says, 

"I wanted to have representation for just the different examples of people that I love from the women in my life, to the men, to my non-binary friends,” she shares, “and it was very natural and fun to work on as a formula.” The single is composed of one verse, but Nai takes that one verse through three gender permutations: female, male, and nonbinary.  When I sang the third verse, the ‘them/they’ verse, I actually had to stop. Just realizing that inclusivity is so often denied to some of the people that I love the most, my best besties.” 

"Make Friends" is the second single from Love Heart Cheat Code. In January, they released "Everything Is Beautiful."

The Melbourne natives have a new visual direction on the album as well. They worked with illustrators Chloe Biocca and Grey Ghost to create visual symbols for the songs and a painting by Rajni Perera is the cover art. The symbols have artifacts that became products like jewelry and food. The band then conceived a Love Heart Cheat Code store and they made a commercial for it. Love Heart Cheat Code will be released on June 28th via Brainfeeder. The band will embark on a tour of North America that starts June 21st. Two of those shows will be with Digable Planets and The Free Nationals. 

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« Phylogeny », une exposition de l’artiste d’origine sri-lankaise Rajni Perera à Montréal, qui présente un corpus d’œuvres abordant les thèmes du changement climatique et de la destruction, de la mutation et de l’extinction inter-espèces :

« L’intention est également de transposer mes recherches dans un espace qui critique et analyse la façon dont nous éduquons la société à travers les musées et l’exposition muséale, l’archivage, et les pratiques liées à ce type particulier d’enseignement… et son acceptation inhérente, son ton, ses préjugés, ses suppositions et ses limitations. »

Plus d’infos sur le site de la Galerie : https://huguescharbonneau.com/rajni-perera-phylogenie/

Images : Rajni Perera, « A Starry-eyed Subspecies » (détail), 2022-2023. Mousse de polyuréthane, bois, poils de vache, argile polymère, argile époxy, tissage synthétique, polyester, coton, herbe séchée, herbe synthétique, peinture acrylique.

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