Om Soorya Reimagines Landscape as Memory and Motion in The Luminous Twilight at Palette Art Gallery

Palette Art Gallery recently unveiled The Luminous Twilight: Place No Trace / Trace No Place, a solo exhibition by artist Om Soorya, bringing together a body of work that reimagines landscape as a fluid psychological and socio-cultural construct rather than a fixed geography.Rooted in memory, erasure, power, and transformation, Soorya’s paintings unfold as meditative, surreal terrains situated within liminal zones—where rural and urban, past and present, permanence and transience intersect.

Fragmented horizons, floating architectural forms, and corroded surfaces mirror the instability of contemporary life, reflecting migratory identities and the gradual erosion of fixed notions of belonging.Recurring visual motifs—pathways, terraced structures, stupa-like forms, and dispersed clusters of light—suggest cycles of loss, transformation, and return. These elements evoke landscapes that are continuously produced, remembered, dissolved, and reimagined, resonating with the lived realities of rapid urbanisation and ideological shifts.

Rohit Gandhi from Palette Art Gallery  says   “Ultimately, The Luminous Twilight is a poetic reflection on contemporary existence, where landscapes dissolve and meaning remains in motion.”The Luminous Twilight: Place No Trace / Trace No Place positions Om Soorya’s practice within a larger discourse on place, memory, and impermanence—inviting viewers to reflect on landscapes not as destinations, but as evolving states of being.

The opening evening saw the presence of prominent figures from the art, fashion, and cultural community, including Sunil Sethi, Rajeev Sethi, Fashion Designers Leena Singh, G.R. Iranna, Sujata Bajaj, and Neerja Chandra Peter, Pratul Dash  among others. Guests engaged in conversations around the works in an intimate, winter setting, complemented by warm hospitality and curated hot finger foods, creating a convivial yet contemplative atmosphere.