Janani Cooray

Bulathsinhalage Janani Chandima Cooray is a Sri Lankan contemporary performance artist, art educator and painter.

Her notable performance My Web came at the Live Art 2011 exhibition where she depicted that her long hair had become her signature style in the professional life.

[3] She has also performed exhibitions about the socio-cultural obstacles for women in the Sri Lankan society regarding the selection of clothing.

[2] Janani received media attention in 2015 for her street performance wearing a traditional Sri Lankan Osariya costume along with covering her body with barbed metal wires.

[5] Her image of wearing Osariya along with whole body being covered with barbed wires in a 2015 street performance became viral in the social media in September 2020 as many users in India falsely interpreted that the woman showed her frustration after the Hathras gang rape and murder by dressing up herself with barbed wires.