Marking Luminescence
Sameer Rao
From 26 December 2025 to 10 January 2026
Monday to Friday 2 to 5.30
Saturday 10 to 12.30 & 2 to 5.30
Opening on Friday 26 December at 4.30
Sameer’s artworks unfold like quiet interior landscapes — spaces shaped not by geography, but by memory, sensation, and the small fragments that remain with us long after a moment has passed. His images do not aim to describe the outside world directly; instead, they form terrains built from impressions: a ladder, a footprint, an animal form, a soft patch of colour, a cluster of dots, the grain of plywood, the gentle pull of cotton. Together, these elements settle into expanses that feel lived-in, travelled through, and remembered. In these works, abstraction becomes a way of organising memory. Shapes appear like markers on a map: hints of land, pathways, shifting fields, or ambiguous forms that echo both nature and dream. His strokes — small, precise, layered — gather and disperse across the surface like winds moving over open ground. The colours, subtle and muted, wash gently over the composition, creating quiet horizons and soft depths. One senses distance, a slow unfolding, a landscape that holds its own time. There is a steady rhythm across his works, a way the elements return — not as repetition, but as continuity. Footsteps, animal forms, shadows, patterns of dots or lines: these are like recurring features of his internal terrain. Nothing is literal, yet everything feels placed with intention, creating a feeling that each artwork is another part of the same vast map. To look at Sameer’s art is to move through a land shaped by thought and emotion. The surfaces invite the viewer not to decode, but to drift — to follow the gentle suggestions of texture and form, to sense rather than interpret. His works open a quiet space where imagination can walk freely, discovering landscapes that belong as much to the viewer as to the artist. Sujith Kumar

About the artist

Sameer comes from Bangalore he got a Master of Visual Arts at Bangalore University. His journey of Art has started with sketching, drawing and painting figurative imageries before shifting towards abstraction. His woodcut prints on paper and fabrics, between poetry and technique, gently draw the audience into a universe of abstraction and patterns.