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Christopher Kulendran Thomas at Artspace

Exhibition | 'Safe Zone': AI-powered Installation Work

Christopher Kulendran Thomas: Safe Zone © Christopher Kulendran Thomas

Christopher Kulendran Thomas: Safe Zone © Christopher Kulendran Thomas

Christopher Kulendran Thomas is a German-based artist of Eelam Tamil descent, who spent his formative years in London, after his family fled ethnic violence in Sri Lanka.
He uses artificial intelligence to probe the fictions of Western individualism and the lasting impacts of imperialism. Having grown up in London after his family fled ethnic violence, he explores how images shape political memory and erasure.

His exhibition Safe Zone combines painting and television to explore how images shape political memory. Made in collaboration with Annika Kuhlman, his work uses a custom AI to endlessly re-edit American broadcasts from the moments before 9/11, and expressionistic AI-generated paintings imagining scenes from an undocumented massacre in Sri Lanka.

14 Nov 2025 – 15 Feb 2026
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The visit of Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Annika Kuhlman is presented in collaboration with Artspace and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) and is supported by the Goethe-Institut. 

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