Cimenti

Abri Mars is pleased to present Cimenti, a solo exhibition of sculptural works by Kunel Gaur. In Cimenti, Gaur’s assemblage becomes a site of quiet trial—each form the result of repeated gestures, adjustments, and refusals. Rooted in a post-human sensibility, these constructions no longer serve the purposes for which their parts were made. Precision remains, but purpose has dissolved. They stand as inert signals, blueprints of a logic now inaccessible—neither relic nor prophecy, but forms suspended in the gap between. Borrowing from Galileo Galilei’s notion of “trial by ordeal,” Cimenti frames making as an experiment without a fixed outcome, where construction is a negotiation between mind and matter. Each work hovers in an elsewhere: too precise to be ruins, too mute to be tools. They feel within reach of understanding, yet remain beyond it. In that distance, they gain presence—stubborn, strange, and wholly their own. Gaur’s sculptural works often involve reconstruction and appropriation of found objects and iconography to extract new meaning. The precise assemblage of raw, architectural materials communicates the appearance of functional design. The works exist as ratios—between the human condition and the expanse of permanence, vulnerability and precision, the immediate and the distant—all in quiet exchange. Embedded in several of the works is generative imagery produced referencing only photos Gaur has made, reflecting on the nature of authenticity and technologically informed visual creation. The resulting objects offer a post-human lens, exploring existence within a space where classification begins to dissolve into unity. Kunel Gaur (b. 1980 New Delhi, India, lives and works in Toronto, Canada) melds the utilitarian rigor of 90s functionalism with a stripped-down, minimalist ethos to channel a nostalgic futurism—where clarity becomes cryptic, and irony is woven into directness. The deconstructed bricolages made of plexiglass, steel, wood, tile, and oil distill complexity into stark simplicity, exploring a layered interplay of form and content. Selected exhibitions include We Were Always Neighbours, Monnaie De Paris Museum, Paris, France (2025); Post Future Era, Gagné Contemporary, Toronto, Canada (2024); Futur Proche, Apre Art House, Mumbai, India (2022); Information Architecture, Method, Mumbai, India (2021); Folklores From Future, AGENC Colab, New Delhi, India (2020). Gaur holds a BFA in Design from Wigan & Leigh College, Wigan, England (2002).