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Dr Edwin Coomasaru

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Art historian. Research on gender, sexuality, race.

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Queer, diasporic South Asian sites and sociality: @salman.toor’s abundant erotic environmental visions currently on display at @courtauld. Pictured: ‘Black Lawn’, 2021, detail / ‘Park Kissers’, 2022, detail. 09 Nov 2026

@random_access01 at @autographabp explores histories of gender fluidity and sexuality diversity in South Asia. A series of collaborative portraits with Hijra, Kothi, and trans sitters resist systems of categorisation and classification once imposed by British colonialism, including the 1861 Penal Code, and its long legacy after independence — including a legal amendment in 2026 which removed the right to self-determination and narrowed who could be legally recognised under India’s 2019 Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act. In contrast to such structures of social scarcity, the show imagines much more generous and expansive collective ways of being in the world — deeply poetic, playful, and political. Pictured: ‘Rasili’ (detail), ‘Nargis’ (detail), and ‘Phoolwa’ from ‘Your Tongue in My Mouth’ (2026). 02 Nov 2026

Recent @tate highlights, ft: Lionel Wendt’s queer Sri Lankan surrealism in a global survey of pictorialist photography from the 1880s (‘Male Youth, Ceylon’, 1937) / Steve McQueen’s portrait of masculinity in 1990s Britain — a zombie decade, at the end of history, that continues to haunt our present (‘Bear’, 1993, detail). 26 Oct 2026

Join us for an evening with Jala Wahid and Dr Edwin Coomasaru at FormaHQ on Thursday 29 October. RSVP link in bio In this short film, artist Jala Wahid introduces ‘Slow Crush’ (2025), her first public sculpture commission, presented in Peveril Gardens at FormaHQ, and the research that inspired it. Developed from research initially supported by Forma’s Research and Development Grant, ‘Slow Crush’ reimagines the ‘Hasanlu Lovers’ — two ancient skeletons discovered in modern-day eastern Kurdistan, whose bodies appear locked in an intimate embrace. Through the work, Wahid explores questions of intimacy, Kurdish history, displacement and the ways in which archaeological histories are interpreted and remembered. For the event Jala will be in-conversation with art historian Dr Edwin Coomasaru, discussing the research and ideas behind the commission, alongside a screening of Jala’s film ‘I Love Ancient Baby’ (2023). 💕 An Evening with Slow Crush: Screening and in-conversation with Jala Wahid and Dr Edwin Coomasaru 📅 Thursday 29 October, 6.30–9.30pm 📍 FormaHQ, 140 Great Dover Street, London SE1 4GW 🎟️ All welcome. RSVP link in bio The project was commissioned and produced by Forma, and generously supported by The Ampersand Foundation, Henry Moore Foundation, and Arts Council England. Events in the public programme have been supported by the North Southwark Environment Trust (NSET) and Goldsmiths University of London through an ongoing collaboration with their MFA Curating course. 20 Oct 2026

Thrilled to be talking about queer Sri Lankan art at @courtauldres — reflecting on the ways in which @mahenwalterperera and @chathurinissansala reimagine the island’s public beaches and private gardens — speaking alongside @bjustbe, to mark @salman.toor’s current @courtauld show. Pictured: Mahen Perera, ‘Longing’, 2019, @colomboscope, photo by Ruvin de Silva / Salman Toor, ‘Bar on East 13th Street’, 2019. Tickets and info (link in bio): https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/queer-sites-in-south-asia-cruising-and-worldbuilding-in-india-and-sri-lankas-gardens-and-beaches/ 19 Oct 2026

@friezeofficial highlights, ft: @rosiebhastings and @hannah_quinlan_’s ‘Night’ (2026, detail) at @arcadiamissa / Lionel Wendt’s ‘Study of a Young Man’ (c.1930-44) at @jhavericontemporary / @h.a.karunaratne‘s ‘Women’ (1968, detail) at @saskiafernandogallery / @helloo0o0o0oo0oo0oooo00o00o0o’s ‘Tinsel’ (2026) at @niruratnamgallery / @sadequain_naqvi’s ‘Teaching in Paris’ (1967, detail) at @grosvenorgallery / @lubainapics’ ‘Swallow Hard: The Lancaster Dinner Service’, (2007, detail) at @hollybush_gardens. #friezeartfair 14 Oct 2026

An Evening with Jala Wahid’s ‘Slow Crush’ 🐱| Thursday 29 October 🎟️ RSVP link in bio Join us at FormaHQ for a special evening with artist Jala Wahid and Dr Edwin Coomasaru, to reflect on ‘Slow Crush’, the artist’s first public sculpture commission, and a striking presence in our rooftop Peveril Gardens since its unveiling in summer 2025. Inspired by the ancient Hasanlu Lovers — two male skeletons discovered locked in an embrace at an archaeological site in present-day Eastern Kurdistan — ‘Slow Crush’ brings an ancient story of intimacy, violence and loss into the present. The event will bring together Jala Wahid (@jalawahid) and art historian Dr. Edwin Coomasaru (@ecoomasaru) for a conversation about the research, histories and ideas behind the commission, exploring questions of diaspora, displacement and the politics of how histories are remembered. The conversation will be accompanied by a screening of Wahid’s 2023 film ‘I Love Ancient Baby’, an early exploration of the themes that would later inform ‘Slow Crush’. Come and revisit Slow Crush with us! This project was commissioned and produced by Forma, and generously supported by The Ampersand Foundation, Henry Moore Foundation, and Arts Council England. 📍 FormaHQ, 140 Great Dover Street, SE1 4GW 📅 29 October 2026 🕐 Doors 6:30pm, Start 7pm 🎟️ Free entry, RSVP required. See link in bio #aceagrams #henrymoorefoundation #ampersandfoundation #jalawahid 09 Oct 2026

Amal Ghosh at @niruratnamgallery explores entanglements between Indian art history and British modernism. The artist trained at Kolkata‘s Government College of Art & Craft, once associated with the Bengal School, but subsequently remodelled on the @sladeschool. Ghosh travelled to London, studying at Central School of Art and Design from 1958-60. His painting drew on cultures of the Indian subcontinent — including the Ajanta Caves, created between the second century BCE and 480 CE — as well as European surrealism, a movement which itself borrowed heavily from what is often called ‘non-western art’. Ghosh pictured enchanted landscapes, mythic bodies, and otherworldly beings. In a UK ever policing its border regimes, as its collapsing empire continued to inflict global violence, the artist’s imaginative vision was shaped by expansive world-building and intellectual generosity. The possibility of aesthetic forms of collective solidarity extended beyond the canvas: Ghosh was a co-founder of Indian Arts UK in 1976 and Horizon Gallery in 1987 — exhibiting South Asian diasporic artists who also made a profoundly important contribution to British art. Pictured: ‘Sacrament’, 1989-92, detail / ‘Catching the Sun’, 1993. 08 Oct 2026

Really enjoyed talking about my current research at @northeastern.ldn last week! Huge thanks to @niamhbhalla for the invitation. 05 Oct 2026

Really enjoyed writing a catalogue essay on queer Sri Lankan artist George Beven (1929-2023) for @thebevenfoundation at @barefootgallery — exploring the ways in which his aesthetic practice reimagined both the Indian Ocean island’s visual cultures and British art history, through an expansive vision that slipped and spilled between social boundaries and geopolitical borders, deeply attentive to Sri Lanka’s multi-ethnic histories and environmental imaginaries. Beven relocated to the UK in the 1950s and became a British citizen; but continued returning to and painting the Indian Ocean island across seven decades. Ft: ‘Untitled’, c.2000s, detail. 14 Sep 2026

An absolute joy to give a lecture at De Saram House for @geoffreybawatrust — reflecting on the ways in which @chathurinissansala and @ramesh__mario craft a queer ecological aesthetics of abundance in the context of Sri Lanka’s visual cultures, both on the island and among its diaspora. My talk considered their exhibitions at @lunugangatrust and @glasgowtramway, in the context of recent economic crisis and protest movements, as well as renewed efforts to decriminalise homosexuality — which remains illegal as ‘against the order of nature’ under the British Penal Code. A fitting location for the discussion: built by queer Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa in 1986. 11 Sep 2026

Pearl diving has been practised in Sri Lanka for thousands of years, its labour and produce admired across the world since ancient times. Seemingly all that remains today are the ruins of Arippu’s Doric Bungalow: built in 1802-04 for Colonial Governor Frederick North in a Greek neoclassical style, to oversee the nearby pearl fisheries. All around are partially-buried and deeply compacted deposits of oyster shell fragments, dating back centuries. The structure began to erode as a result of the area’s climatic conditions quite soon after its completion, and now its final fragments stand poised on the cusp of total collapse into the sea. According to local folklore, the building is also the site of a palace belonging to the mythic Sangam-era Tamil queen Alli Raani. 09 Sep 2026

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