Multidisciplinary works of Deneth Piumakshi Veda Arachchige (b. 1980, Kurunegala, Sri Lanka) employ voices, videos, photography, sculpture, painting on traditional Sri Lankan ‘cheetha’ textiles and embroidery on different surfaces, including the palms of the volunteers. Her works carry past and present through hidden layers becoming visible through Deneth’s act of stitching, drawing, standing still, inquiring, bring light on the forgotten colonial entanglement of European countries in Ceylon during the 19th century, on the Sri Lankan diaspora in Europe, on untold stories of women who are domestic workers in the Middle East and women and children in the war zones, or on impossible restitution of the Sri Lankan cultural heritage by diverse European museums. Her artistic practice runs along a thin line which separates art and activism; it is her intend to play with that tension. Highlights of her exhibitions are ‘Restitution as self-portrait’, 12th Berlin Biennale, Germany (2022), ‘Voices from an archived Silence’, Theatre Basel, Switzerland (2020).