Ilavenil Vasuky Jayapalan
Ilavenil Vasuky Jayapalan (b. 1991) is a multidisciplinary artist and musician of Eelam Tamil origin from Oslo, Norway. Jayapalan’s work is deeply influenced by the worlds of cinema, music, and media, often orbiting around the tension and cognitive dissonance between national consciousness shaped by postcolonial nation-state narratives and the lives of those excluded from, or forcibly absorbed into, such constructs.
The notions of freedom, truth, and desire are recurring themes of his works, often entangled with technology and power, genocide and rebirth, evolution, queerness, neo-eugenic and Tamil spirituality often seen through the prism of Hindu and Buddhist cosmology. Resulting in works that speculates on futures that emerge from the contemporary fringes of society.
Jayapalan’s works have been exhibited at the National Museum of Art (NOR), Kunsthall Oslo (NOR), Fotogalleriet (NOR), Hulias (NOR), BO (NOR) and Sezon Art Gallery (JP).