Artist talk med Ilavenil Vasuky Jayapalan

Ilavenil Vasuky Jayapalan (b. 1991) transdisciplinary artist and musician of Eelam Tamil origin based in Oslo, Norway. Jayapalans works are highly inspired by the world of cinema, music and media. Often evolving around the tension between national consciousness and collective unconsciousness, the notion of freedom, truth and desire to speculative futures that depart from the contemporary fringes of society.

Musically Jayapalan works under the moniker Nagaver. And he is a longtime collaborator with artists M.I.A, Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Annika Kuhlmann. His collaborative works have been shown in music festivals around the world and in institutions like ICA (UK), De Young (USA) and KW (GER). His own works have been shown at the National museum of art  (NOR),  Fotogalleriet (NOR), Hulias (NOR) and Sezon Art gallery (JP). He is currently working towards a solo show at Kunsthall Oslo (NOR)