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Sivaji, Saambavi: Archiving the Margins: Art, Memory, and Resistance at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Sri Lanka, in Malreddy, Pavan Kumar, Schulze-Engler, Frank and Bartha-Mitchell, Kathrin (Eds.): Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2025 (Anglophone Postcolonial Studies, Volume 3), p. 193–211. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1559.c24297

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Saambavi Sivaji

Archiving the Margins: Art, Memory, and Resistance at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Sri Lanka

ABSTRACT This chapter examines the Museum of Modern and Contempo­rary Art Sri Lanka as a site of memory based on its inaugural exhibition, One Hundred Thousand Small Tales. It explores the intricate relationship between art and memory, how artworks invoke memory, and analyses how the exhibited artworks perform memory and work as a form of resistance. This investigation delves into the ways artworks embody and communicate historical and personal narratives, positioning the MMCA as a significant cultural institution in the preservation and articulation of collective memory.

KEYWORDS agency, commemorative practices, MMCA, site of memory, solidarities