Where Matter Becomes Meaning: A Group Show
Ongoing exhibition
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Overview
New Delhi: Sanchit Art, New Delhi is pleased to showcase the exhibition, Where Matter Becomes Meaning, a compelling group exhibition featuring the works of 20 distinguished artists.
"Where Matter Becomes Meaning" traces a journey in which material form evolves into states of perception, memory, and spiritual awareness. Across generations of artists, pigment, texture, and structure are not merely formal devices but sites through which the physical world acquires philosophical and emotional resonance. The exhibition opens with modern masters who shaped Indian abstraction as an inward and contemplative practice. In the works of S. H. Raza, geometry becomes a meditative language, charged with tantric thought and cosmic balance. Alongside, Ganesh Haloi transforms landscape into remembered terrain, while Satish Gujral infuses abstraction with material weight and historical memory. Practices by Manoj Dutta, Vinita Karim, and Seema Kohli extend this lineage, interweaving myth, narrative, and personal cosmologies into contemporary visual vocabularies.
A shift toward floral imagery introduces a moment of stillness. Works by Ramu Das, Sanjay Bhattacharya, and Bhagat Singh move beyond representation, offering nature as experience, a quiet interval where colour and form invite reflection, repose, and sensory renewal. From this pause emerges the symbolic intensity of tantric explorations. While Raza's abstraction carries tantra as philosophical foundation, Dipak's works engage its imagery more directly, activating symbols as conduits of energy and ritual presence. Here, the canvas becomes a charged field in which the visible and the metaphysical converge.
Rather than discrete categories, the exhibition unfolds as a continuum: landscape becomes memory, flower becomes breath, symbol becomes vibration. Across these practices, matter is not fixed substance but a living threshold a space where the tangible turns inward and meaning quietly comes into being. The exhibition ultimately proposes art as a threshold where the visible world transforms into a field of contemplation and consciousness. On view from 2nd to 31st March 2026, the show will be open Monday to Saturday, between 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM.
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