Toronto-based artist Rajni Perera (b. 1985, Dehiwela, Sri Lanka) presents her first U.S. solo exhibition, Dhum Lōkaya, at Rajiv Menon Contemporary in Los Angeles, on view from October 11 to November 8, 2025. Known for her mythologically rich and speculative practice, Perera blends traditional craft with critical narratives that reimagine dominant cultural stories through feminist and decolonial lenses.
The exhibition features new paintings and sculptures that explore futurity, migration, and the feminine body as both a map and a site of resistance. Works such as Swampgirly (2025) and Dark Matter (2025) bring together diverse materials—foam, steel, polymer clay, pearls, and embroidery—to create a vivid, mythic ecology where animals, hybrid beings, and symbolic landscapes intertwine.
Perera’s practice draws on global mythologies, historical epics, and sci-fi iconography to reveal hidden truths beyond realism. Her work has been shown at major biennials including Sharjah (2025) and Gwangju (2021), and is held in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal.
Dhum Lōkaya invites viewers to enter a charged, alternative cosmology—one where myth functions not as escape, but as a critical tool for reimagining our shared future.
