‘Reminiscence of light’: Navigating memory, matter, and metaphor

Often, it is in the peripheral view—in the quiet confluence of the overlooked—that the meaning of our existence begins to emerge. The exhibition “Reminiscence of Light” promises such a convergence: a gathering not merely of objects, but of disparate sensibilities charting the human condition against the steadfast, yet ever-shifting, horizon of home, soil, and the ceaseless motion of life. To encounter these works is to read a palimpsest of a world caught between ancient, elemental rhythms and the assertive geometries of the contemporary moment. Abdus Sattar Toufiq’s paintings, “Farmer & Soil” (2025) and “The Nocturnal” (2023), exemplify a sensibility oscillating between the allegorical and the observational. Figures of the working class emerge as carriers of narrative and metaphor—each stroke of...