Solitude in my Cacophony

Solitude In My Cacophony is a solo exhibition showcasing the nuanced and meditative works of Bhuwal Prasad, an artist whose practice fuses tribal visual language with the expressive freedom of abstract art. Born in Azamgarh in 1987, Bhuwal trained at the Faculty of Visual Arts, BHU Varanasi, and later at the College of Art, Delhi, developing a distinctive voice that speaks in textures, lines, and silence amid noise.

This exhibition is a journey through the paradoxes of self — how the personal and the ancestral, the simple and the complex, the ordered and the chaotic, can coexist in a delicate, layered harmony.

The title Solitude In My Cacophony captures the essence of Bhuwal’s work: a quiet, contemplative voice inside a storm of visual activity. His canvases — now often replaced by corrugated cardboard sheets — become fields of texture and rhythm, where tribal line-drawing traditions and abstract visual energy converge in a language both timeless and contemporary.

While tribal art is rooted in storytelling, simplicity, and the use of natural materials, Bhuwal brings it into conversation with the non-linear, spontaneous spirit of modern abstraction. The result is a body of work that looks inward even as it hums with complexity — a reflective solitude within visual cacophony.

Over the years, Bhuwal has moved fluidly across drawing, painting, and mixed media, bringing with him a consistent fascination for repetition, variation, and texture. His use of lines as emotional and structural elements is a direct homage to tribal traditions, while his use of monochromes, bold colours, and fluid brushwork roots him firmly in abstract expression.

More recently, his adoption of corrugated cardboard as a surface has added an architectural, almost sculptural quality to his paintings. The folds and grooves of the cardboard create unpredictable terrain, adding depth and resisting uniformity. These textures catch light differently, echoing the inconsistencies of memory, emotion, and perception.

Bhuwal’s art invites the viewer into a state of reflection. The illusion of symmetry and repetition gives way, upon closer inspection, to a universe of irregularity, evolving patterns, and intuitive mark-making. This mirrors the human experience: what appears to be pattern or order is often a negotiation of chaos.

By using natural pigments and found materials, Bhuwal subtly reconnects the urban viewer with an earth-rooted past, while his abstract impulses bring these elements into a global contemporary dialogue. His work is deeply personal, yet it carries echoes of a shared cultural memory, offering a space where emotion, craft, and instinct meet.

Solitude In My Cacophony is not a contradiction — it is a coexistence. It is the experience of standing still inside a moving world. In a time marked by constant stimuli and fragmentation, Bhuwal’s work offers a kind of visual meditation. The exhibition becomes a space to pause, observe, and listen to the quiet voices hidden within layered surfaces and overlapping lines.

Bhuwal Prasad’s solo exhibition is both an homage and a departure — a tribute to the storytelling of tribal traditions and a leap into the boundless world of abstract exploration. Solitude In My Cacophony is not just a presentation of artworks, but an invitation to feel — to sense the hum of stillness in a noisy world, and to find personal echoes within the textured language of lines and shapes.