With each successive exhibition, the wall behind the reception desk has become a privileged place to offer visibility to the artists in residence at Fonderie Darling. In situ proposals, recent works or research in progress; the projects exhibited are an entry point to an artistic practice, an invitation to meet the work of the artists who occupy the building, this place of life and experimentation.

Rajni Perera’s DANCERS series fuses her explorations into the aesthetics of science fiction. Bringing forth a discussion surrounding human body dynamics, dance  became a medium of interest  to the artist  for its ability to create gestures of ideas, however abstract or particular. This series has evolved to  incorporate jewelry and  design motifs into the celestial silhouettes Dancer 1 and Dancer 5.  Suspended in a state of continuous motion, these swaying and undulating bodies bear reference to  choreography stills from dance videos, as well as poses drawn directly from Rajni Perera’s imagination. 

Rajni Perera was born in Sri Lanka in 1985 and lives and works in Toronto. Perera’s work has been exhibited locally at the PHI Foundation (Montreal) and the McMicheal Canadian Art Collection, and internationally at Temple Contemporary (Philadelphia) Eastside Projects (Birmingham), Colomboscope (Sri Lanka), and at the  the Gwangju Biennale (South Korea). Her work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the Sobey Foundation, and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.