Abhishek Salve
MA 間 – The Space In Between
In my practice, I explore the quiet, often unnoticed spaces that exist between form and emptiness, memory and forgetting, presence and absence. The Japanese idea of MA (間)—the interval, the pause, the breathing space—guides my visual language. It is in these subtle gaps that meaning gathers, dissolves, and reshapes itself.
The works in this exhibition emerge from patient layering: washes of colour, small gestures, marks, textures, and symbols that behave like traces of lived experience. Circles, dots, and soft geometric boundaries appear repeatedly, suggesting constellations, thresholds, or portals. They are neither representations nor abstractions alone, but meditative zones—places where perception slows down.
I treat each surface as a site of quiet negotiation. Something arrives, something withdraws. A mark is made, then softened. A shape becomes a memory of itself. What remains is not a statement, but a field of attention—an invitation to linger in the in-between, to discover resonance in what is minimal, fragile, and momentary.
These works do not seek conclusions. Instead, they ask the viewer to enter the pause, listen to the stillness, and find their own meaning in the space that opens.
