Event Summary
Date: Friday, 19 June 2026
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Location: Off the Kerb Gallery, 66B Johnston Street Collingwood VIC 3066
Cost: Free
Event Description
Ondru in partnership with Nūl and Off the Kerb presents Fragments of Us, an exhibition by artists from Sri Lanka and the diaspora identity as lived across fracture, memory, and becoming. An immersive exploration of identity, fractured, layered, and constantly reshaped. For Sri Lankans who grew up in the shadow of war, displacement, ethnic divides, and faith tensions, identity has never been simple. It carries the weight of survival and memory, of belonging and exclusion, of wounds that never fully close.
Fragments of Us brings together artists from Sri Lanka and the diaspora, each weaving their own stories into a collective exploration, refusing reduction, embracing contradiction, and giving form to the unbounded nature of belonging.
Join us for an immersive opening night of art, the Identity Room, dance performances, and refreshments. This is more than an exhibition. It is an invitation to feel, to remember, to witness.
Event Schedule
6pm: Doors Open
6:45 Dance Performance
Vaishnavi Sarode Kasthury Shanthankumar will perform with vocals by Chenuli Haththimuni.
“The opening performance explores two distinct yet converging stories, both centred around identity, which unfold simultaneously. Each story explores a different relationship to identity, but they are united by a common thread: there is a sense of competition with identities pulling in different directions until the internal understanding of fragmentation, co-existence, acceptance and wholeness is fully explored. Each storyline is driven by a specific emotional landscape and character arc. While the overarching theme is identity, each character is navigating a distinct set of emotions that shape how that struggle is expressed through movement.”
7:00 Welcome & Main Event
Fragments of Us: A Sri Lankan Identity Exhibition, featuring paintings and works from artists across Sri Lanka and the diaspora. Welcome speeches and a variety of refreshments will be served throughout.
8:00 Event End
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