A Solo Exhibition by Meena Yadav
Astitva — The Essence of Being, a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Meena Yadav, will open on **3 December 2025* at the *Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi*. The exhibition presents a deeply reflective body of work that explores identity, memory, emotional inheritance, and the evolving landscape of womanhood. Through layered textures, abstraction, and quiet symbolism, Meena captures the inner terrain of lived experience — its fragility, resilience, silences, and awakenings.
The preview evening will begin with the lighting of the lamp by:
*Vidushi Shovana Narayan*, Padmashri and Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardee
*Dr. Ranjana Kumari*, renowned social activist, writer, and academic
Meena’s practice is anchored in an intuitive dialogue with the natural world and the rhythms that shape inner consciousness. Her works evoke stillness and motion simultaneously — a subtle duality that unfolds across layered surfaces. Based in Gurugram, she approaches abstraction as a sensory language, allowing form, colour, and texture to exist as emotion rather than representation.
Her visual vocabulary arises from observing landscapes that shift with light, wind, and memory. The works feel like terrains of thought — spaces where the seen and the felt merge. Rather than painting landscapes, she paints what landscapes evoke: nostalgia, grounding, transition, and a return to essence.
In The World in One Breath, hues dissolve into each other like seasons collapsing into a single moment of remembering. The painting feels suspended in time — a world held softly between exhale and inhale.
A Meadow in Motion suggests movement rising upward, as if the land itself is breathing and awakening. The strokes feel alive, capturing energy rather than geography.
In The Sky Opens Elsewhere, the work becomes a quiet threshold — an invitation into a softer, boundless realm where stillness expands.
A Realm in Rupture shifts into urgency, capturing instinct and escape — a reflection of survival, strength, and feminine resilience.
What defines Meena’s work is the feeling it leaves behind — contemplative, grounding, and deeply human. Astitva is not an exhibition to be observed, but one to be experienced. It invites the viewer to return to themselves — gently, honestly, and without hurry.
