Hashan Cooray

Finding myself between fragments.
In “True Faces That Break Like Puzzles”, the form resists wholeness yet reveals more in its fractures.
This moment, caught in the making, where my own face slips through the gaps of the sculpture… as if the work is quietly reconstructing me in return.

Process is never separate from identity it cuts, rearranges, and exposes what lies beneath.

A larger body, carrying the same inquiry.
Fragments assemble, but refuse resolution held in a precise tension between construction and collapse.

The face emerges only to resist itself. It is not presented as an image to be recognized, but as a structure to be confronted cut, reorganised, and left deliberately incomplete.

Scale intensifies the process. What was once intimate becomes undeniable. The work asserts itself as both object and system where control and instability coexist.

This is not a finished form. It is a condition in motion.

True Faces That Break Like Puzzles IX, 2026
Acrylic, Lacquer, Graphite and Charcoal on PVC Echo Board
213 x 154 x 154 cm
83 7/8 x 60 5/8 x 60 5/8 in

Each work is built from interlocking components cut, measured, and arranged like specimens laid out in a laboratory.

True Faces That Break Like Puzzles VII, 2026
Acrylic, Lacquer, Graphite and Charcoal on Wood
33 x 22 x 21 cm
13 x 8 5/8 x 8 1/4 in