Dasha Buben | Thilini Jinadasa
What Memory Built in Colour
7th November - 24th December 2025
Location
Pristine Contemporary
Gallery Pristine Contemporary presents What Memory Built in Colour, a two-person exhibition featuring artists Dasha Buben and Thilini Jinadasa, on view from Friday, 7 November to Wednesday, 24 December 2025. The exhibition brings together Berlin-based Belarusian artist Dasha Buben and Sri Lankan contemporary artist Thilini Jinadasa, whose abstract practices draw on memory, emotion and the evocative power of colour.
Featuring Vivid Memories of Things That Never Happened to Me by Buben and The Secret of Hues by Jinadasa, the exhibition reflects on how recollection and imagination converge through abstraction, where colour becomes a medium of reflection and feeling.
In Vivid Memories of Things That Never Happened to Me, Buben presents nineteen works that explore the shifting and unreliable nature of memory, how it alters, overlaps and dissolves with time. Through layered abstraction and vivid tones, she translates fleeting impressions and imagined moments into contemplations on identity and perception.
Jinadasa’s The Secret of Hues comprises twelve works that approach colour as both language and mystery. Her compositions balance control and spontaneity, creating spaces that hold the weight of emotion without words.
Together, Buben and Jinadasa open a quiet conversation between memory and emotion, where colour becomes a vessel for introspection, as well as a reminder that the most deeply felt often defies explanation.
Featured Works
Serenity X (2025)
Acrylic on canvas
2.583 feet H X 2.583 feet W
(31 inches H X 31 inches W)
Serenity II (2025)
Oil stick and acrylic on canvas
2.583 feet H X 2.583 feet W
(31 inches H X 31 inches W)
Serenity XI (2025)
Acrylic on canvas
2.583 feet H X 2.583 feet W
(31 inches H X 31 inches W)
Azo Yellow Lemon
Oil on canvas | Berlin, 2025
1.917 feet H X 1.667 feet W
(23 inches H X 20 inches W)
Unknown Ending III (2025)
Acrylic on canvas
2.33 feet H X 3 feet W
(28 inches H X 36 inches W)
Memory II
Oil on canvas | Berlin, 2025
5.25 feet H X 3.33 feet W
(63 inches H X 40 inches W)
Serenity I (2025)
Oil stick and acrylic on canvas
2.583 feet H x 2.583 feet W
(31 inches H X 31 inches W)
First Time I Saw Orange
Oil on Canvas | Berlin, 2025
4.58 feet H X 3.33 feet W
(55 inches H X 40 inches W)
Untitled
Oil on canvas | Berlin, 2025
3.33 feet H X 2.67 feet W
(40 inches H X 32 inches W)
Untitled
Oil on canvas | Berlin, 2025
3.33 feet H X 2.58 feet W
(40 inches H X 31 inches W)
Memory I
Oil on canvas | Berlin, 2025
4.58 feet H X 3.33 feet W
(55 inches H X 40 inches W)
Memory I Wish I Had
Oil on canvas | Berlin, 2025
1.917 feet H X 1.583 feet W
(23 inches H X 19 inches W)
Unknown Ending IV (2024)
Mixed media on paper
0.667 feet H X 0.7917 feet W
(8 inches H X 9.5 inches W)
Serenity VII 2025 (set of two works)
Acrylic on canvas
2.583 feet H X 2.583 feet W (each)
(31 inches H X 31 inches W (each))
Serenity VI (2025)
Oil stick and acrylic on canvas
3.583 feet H X 3.583 feet W
(43 inches H X 43 inches W)
Taste of Mango
Oil on canvas | Berlin, 2025
3.33 feet H X 2.67 feet W
(40 inches H X 32 inches W)
Serenity VIII 2025 (set of two works)
Acrylic on canvas
2.916 feet H X 1.916 feet W (each)
(35 inches H X 23 inches W (each))
When I Was 3, I Saw Clouds Running Through the Sky
Oil on canvas | Berlin, 2025
3.33 feet H X 2.67 feet W
(40 inches H X 32 inches W)
Every Summer Day of my Childhood
Oil on canvas | Berlin, 2025
4.58 feet H X 3.33 feet W
(55 inches H X 40 inches W)
Where I Feel Happy II
Acrylic on canvas
2 feet H X 2 feet W
(24 inches H X 24 inches W)
Serenity III 2025 (set of three works)
Acrylic on canvas
0.7916 feet H X 0.7916 feet W (each)
(9.5 inches H X 9.5 inches W (each))
Where I Feel Happy (2025)
Acrylic on canvas
2 feet H X 2 feet W
(24 inches H X 24 inches W)
Seeing Pink for the First Time
Oil on canvas | Berlin, 2025
4.58 feet H X 3.33 feet W
(55 inches H X 40 inches W)
Serenity XII (2025)
Acrylic and oil stick on canvas
2.58 feet W X 4 feet H
(31 inches W X 48 inches H)
Unknown Ending VI (2024)
Mixed media on paper
0.667 feet H x 1 feet W
(8 inches H X 12 inches W)
Being Born
Oil on canvas | Berlin, 2025
4.58 feet H X 3.33 feet W
(55 inches H X 40 inches W)
Sunbeams in my Grandmother’s House
Oil on canvas | Berlin, 2025
4.58 feet H X 3.33 feet W
(55 inches H X 40 inches W)
Unknown Ending VII (2024)
Mixed media on paper
0.667 feet H X 0.7917 feet W
(8 inches H X 9.5 inches W)
Serenity IV 2025 (set of two works)
Acrylic on canvas
0.7916 feet H X 0.916 feet W (each)
(9.5 H X 11 inches W (each))
Serenity V (2025)
Oil stick and acrylic on canvas
6 feet W x 4.583 feet H
(72 inches W X 55 inches H)
Unknown Ending II (2025)
Acrylic on canvas
2 feet H X 2 feet W
(24 inches H X 24 inches W)
Unknown Ending V (2024)
Mixed media on paper
0.75 feet H X 1 feet W
(9 inches H X 12 inches W)
I Can Feel the Colour
Oil on canvas | Berlin, 2025
3.33 feet H X 2.67 feet W
(40 inches H X 32 inches W)
Is It A Memory Or A Dream
Oil on canvas | Berlin, 2025
5 feet H X 4 feet W
(60 inches H X 48 inches W)
Serenity IX (2025)
Acrylic on canvas
4 feet W X 2.583 feet H
(48 inches W X 31 inches H)
Myosotis / Forget Me Not
Oil on canvas | Berlin, 2025
1.67 feet H X 1.25 feet W
(20 inches H X 15 inches W)
Untitled
Oil on canvas | Berlin, 2025
3.33 feet H X 2.67 feet W
(40 inches H X 32 inches W)
Unknown Ending (2025)
Acrylic on canvas
0.65 feet H X 0.917 feet W
(7.8 inches H X 11 inches W)
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