The Shape of a Pause

Event Name: The Shape of a Pause
Artists: Anpu Varkey

If a pause is more than a break and becomes a moment of reflection in the flow of life, The Shape of a Pause invites the viewer into that lived stillness where gesture, surface and memory intersect. The exhibition explores how slowing down can reveal the continuity between outward mark-making and inner contemplation, transforming space into a reflective field.

Anpu Varkey is a muralist and painter whose practice spans over fifteen years of site-responsive and gestural mark-making. In her first solo show at Project 88, she presents two large-scale murals and a selection of oil paintings on canvas that translate her longstanding gestural vocabulary into the enclosed durational space of the studio.

The exhibition offers visitors an opportunity to experience how movement and stillness can coalesce into visual rhythm and thought. Through expansive murals and canvas works produced over the past three years, The Shape of a Pause encourages reflection on the interplay between exterior intervention and interior space, inviting a slower encounter with form and mark.