THE ESSENCE OF BEING solo art exhibition of Meena Yadav
Meena Yadav is a contemporary abstract artist whose practice is rooted in an intuitive relationship with the natural world and the emotional landscapes that define human experience. Her work is distinguished by its ability to evoke a sense of stillness and movement at once, a quiet paradox that runs through the layered surfaces she creates. Based in Gurugram, Meena approaches abstraction as both exploration and reflection, using colour, texture, and depth to examine the places where the organic and the constructed intersect.
Meena’s visual language emerges from observing environments that shift constantly, skies that transform by the hour, land that carries invisible histories, and spaces that hold memory in silence. Her canvases feel like distillations of these phenomena, capturing not the appearance of a landscape but its internal rhythm. Through nuanced washes, textured layers, and delicate marks, she creates works that pulse with energy yet remain grounded in meditative calm.
Astitva marks a significant point in her creative journey. The series contemplates the essence of being the core of existence that remains, even as life around us grows increasingly complex. Meena uses abstraction not to escape reality but to return to the elemental truths that underlie it. Her works do not narrate; they breathe. They ask the viewer to pause, to stand still long enough to experience the subtle movements within pigment and space.
In The World in One Breath, she creates a landscape of shifting hues that seem to fold into one another like seasons dissolving into memory. The painting carries the sensation of inhaling an entire universe where warmth, bloom, depth, and quiet coexist in a seamless cycle. The transitions are fluid, almost imperceptible, giving the work a timeless, suspended quality.
A Meadow in Motion employs upward strokes that lift the landscape into light, creating a sense of terrain that is alive, rising, and responding. The work is not a depiction but a sensation, the energy of land meeting air, of quiet forces gathering momentum.
In The Sky Opens Elsewhere, Meena captures the feeling of stepping into an alternate realm, where familiar boundaries disappear. The soft blues and lilacs behave like shifting veils, suggesting a portal into a world where gravity loosens, and stillness becomes expensive.
A Realm in Rupture brings forth a different emotional register, urgent, raw, and deeply felt. Through restless marks and charged textures, the work reflects the instinct to move, survive, and escape. It is a study in tension, yet also an affirmation of resilience.
What makes Meena’s work unique is her ability to create spaces that feel both rooted and otherworldly. Her abstractions invite the viewer inward, toward recognition rather than explanation. Astitva becomes not just an exhibition but a moment of returning to nature, to presence, and to the quiet truth of one’s own essence.