India, May 24 -- The canvases that followed every single viewer straight back home

To stand before a Shanaka Kulathunga canvas is to confront an absolute reckoning. A specific, raw fear and deeply rooted pain drips from the earthy ochres and heavy slashes of pigment. These paintings capture the precise geometry of the hole left behind when someone turns away. Looking at The Harmonizer, the anchor piece of the Sri Lankan figurative painter's first Indian solo exhibition titled Silent Stories, you realise immediately you are being asked to bear witness to lives society systematically ignores.

Brought to New Delhi by Vikram Mayor, Director of Gallery Silver Scapes, and housed within the CCA Gallery at Bikaner House, this expansive collecti...