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Christopher Kulendran Thomas | MCA

Exhibition|'The Finesse': AI-powered Installation Work

Christopher Kulendran Thomas at the MCA Christopher Kulendran Thomas, The Finesse, 2022, in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann, installation view, Christopher Kulendran Thomas: FOR REAL, Kunsthalle Zürich, 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Andrea Rossetti.

Christopher Kulendran Thomas at the MCA Christopher Kulendran Thomas, The Finesse, 2022, in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann, installation view, Christopher Kulendran Thomas: FOR REAL, Kunsthalle Zürich, 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Andrea Rossetti.

Christopher Kulendran Thomas is a German-based artist of Eelam Tamil descent, who spent his formative years in London, after his family left Sri Lanka following increasing ethnic violence.

He uses artificial intelligence to probe the fictions of Western individualism and the lasting impacts of imperialism, exploring how images shape political memory and erasure.

His work The Finesse is shown at the MCA in Sydney within the exhibition Data Dreams: Art and AI, which features a total of ten artists, including another Germany-based artist in Hito Steyerl, as well as Angie Abdilla, Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, Fabien Giraud, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Agnieszka Kurant, Trevor Paglen, and Anicka Yi.

21 Nov 2025 until 27 April 2026
MCA Exhibition Data Dreams: Art and AI: Info

Sat 22 Nov 2025 at 3pm
MCA Artist Talk The Finesse

The visit of Christopher Kulendran Thomas to Sydney is presented in collaboration with Artspace and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) and is supported by the Goethe-Institut. 

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