INTERSTITIAL REVERBERATIONS
Presented by B-CAF
March 13th – March 29th, 2026
In Interstitial Reverberations, Samir Aich engages the language of Alpona not as fixed tradition but as a mutable archive, one that can be fractured, reconfigured and recoded through the pressures of contemporary abstraction. The works operate within a space of hybridity, where inherited motifs collide with irregular geometries, chromatic ruptures and fields of deliberate opacity. Here, pattern is no longer ornamental syntax; it is a cultural fragment undergoing translation.
Across these canvases, Alpona’s curves, dots and floral residues appear as traces, sometimes exposed, sometimes submerged beneath dense colour blocks or angular partitions. He performs a quiet deconstruction: the decorative grammar of the vernacular form is unsettled, broken apart and redistributed into new visual structures. This post-medium approach, where drawing, painting, design and mark-making bleed into each other, produces surfaces that are materially layered and conceptually unstable.
The tension between revelation and concealment is central. In certain sections, motifs flare into visibility with sharp, almost urgent clarity; elsewhere, they dissolve into shadowed voids or merge with abstract textures. This oscillation creates a rhythm of interruption, a pulse of recognition followed by erasure. Viewers navigate the work through this tension, sensing cultural memory not as certainty but as vibration, alive, shifting and unfinalized.
Samir Aich’s paintings embody the contemporary condition of translation: the movement of a visual tradition across temporal, material and conceptual thresholds. Rather than reproducing Alpona, the work interrogates its afterlives, how a ritual form persists within the artist’s present, how it mutates under the logics of abstraction, how it carries meaning forward while refusing to remain intact. In these interstitial spaces, something new is forged: a visual field where the past is neither preserved nor abandoned, but transformed through the frictions of its encounter with the contemporary.
Interstitial Reverberations is thus an exploration of what survives transition, what fractures under pressure and what emerges in the in-between. It is a study of the tremors, material, cultural and conceptual through which tradition becomes possibility.
