Presented by IAF Artist-in-Residence Programme in partnership with KALĀ South Asia

Dumiduni Illangasinghe’s project, Soft Armours, comprises a thirty-five panel mural with broken glass bangles and mushrooms, placing contrasting materials and symbols in dialogue with each. Red bangles, often associated with South Asian femininity, ritual, and auspicious beginnings appear in a fragmented form, their shards carrying connotations of rupture and loss. Alongside mushrooms that are emblematic of quiet resilience and regenerative strength, the work reframes vulnerability as a site of agency, endurance, and transformation.