Anurag Tiwari

Dates: September 5 - October 24, 2025

Anurag Tiwari’s Journey of the Mind, at the Saint John Arts Centre’s Rotunda Gallery, resists easy classification. His works are lyrical yet restless, poised yet turbulent — paintings that feel less like objects and more like passages through shifting thought.

Tiwari paints as a poet writes, with rhythm, metaphor, and silence. Each canvas exists between states: between poem and poem, story and story, solace and another solace. They negotiate opposites — formless and formed, minimalist and exhibitionist, magical and myopic — not by resolving them, but by holding the tension.

There is a haunting déjà vu in his images: echoes of the past alongside forms that refuse to belong to the present. This gives his work a multiversal quality, carrying many narratives at once.

Above all, his art invites participation. These are not passive images; they are experiences that awaken the viewer’s own mind. Journey of the Mind is not only an exhibition — it is an invitation.

Journey of the Mind – Gallery Note

Anurag Tiwari’s art does not aim to show the world as it is, but to explore how the mind itself creates and transforms what we see. His paintings are windows into the movement of thought — shifting between memory and imagination, clarity and confusion, turbulence and calm.

In Indian philosophy, the mind (manas), intelligence (buddhi), ego (ahamkara), and consciousness (chitta) work together to shape every perception. First the mind searches, then the intellect chooses, the ego internalizes, and finally consciousness perceives. Tiwari’s canvases echo this process: they begin in uncertainty, move through choices, and arrive at images that carry many possible meanings at once.

Some works feel like déjà vu — familiar yet ungraspable. Others resist all order, refusing to settle into one narrative. Together, they remind us that perception is never fixed. Just as thought lingers even after a moment has passed, his art carries the inertia of the mind, continuing its journey long after the viewer has walked away.

Journey of the Mind is not only an exhibition. It is an invitation – to wander, to reflect, and to witness thought made visible.