CoCA Artists’ Poornima Jayasinghe & Chinthaka Thenuwara are the ‘firsts’ in Sri Lankan Art history to create a platform for diverse viewers in all forms of ages and background to freely interact with the work of art. It broke the boundary between the work of Art and the audience, creator and the viewer and shifts its focus of the viewer to the creator of the work.

Poornima Jayasinghe & Chinthaka Thenuwara created 14 interactive works of art inspired from the narrative by Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’. The focal point of the works exhibited is where the audience engages with the work of art, ‘plays’ the role of Alice thus the Art work play the wonderland. The tension of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland emerges when Alice’s fixed perspective of the world comes into contact with the mad, illogical world of Wonderland. Alice’s fixed sense of order clashes with the madness she finds in Wonderland. Likewise, the work of art challenges the audience perception and questions the state of Art and what is Art? What becomes a work of Art? According to the story Alice tries to understand her environment in terms of cause and action likewise, audience tries to understand the works in terms of cause and action.