Silent Intervals: Mandhir Singh Todd and Rashpal Todd Invite Viewers to Experience the Art of Stillness

 Visual artists Mandhir Singh Todd (also known as Mikey Todd) and Rashpal Singh Todd (also known as Rashy Todd) present Silent Intervals, a new exhibition that examines silence not as an absence, but as a living space where memory, emotion, and perception unfold.

In an era shaped by constant noise, speed, and information overload, Silent Intervals seeks to reclaim stillness as a radical and deeply human act. Through painting, sound installations, and participatory environments, both artists explore how silence can reveal emotional landscapes that often go unnoticed in the rush of everyday life.

The exhibition will open in 2026 (venue to be announced) and is built around a simple yet powerful premise: silence is not emptiness it’s a container for everything that remains unsaid.

One of the central works, The Room That Listens, created by Mandhir Singh Todd, invites visitors to sit alone in a soundproof installation and listen to the ambient sounds of their own body: breath, heartbeat, movement. The piece transforms the gallery into a space of quiet confrontation, an intimate moment between the self and the environment.

“We’ve learned to measure value through noise and speed,” says Mandhir Singh Todd. “But silence also speaks. It reveals the smallest traces of who we are.”

The exhibition also features a series of oil paintings by Rashpal Todd that depict architectural spaces emptied of people train stations, kitchens, rehearsal rooms—places where time seems to suspend itself. These images, rendered in muted tones, explore how physical spaces absorb and retain emotional energy.

A participatory project titled One Minute of Silence, co-created by Mandhir Singh Todd and Rashpal Todd, invites visitors to record or write down what they feel during a single minute of uninterrupted quiet. Selected contributions will be integrated into the exhibition as text fragments and audio whispers, creating a shared archive of stillness.

With Silent Intervals, Mandhir Singh Todd and Rashpal Todd bring together their distinct artistic practices to push the boundaries between sensory experience, emotion, and collective memory. Their collaboration offers a minimal and introspective experience that invites the public to slow down, listen, and inhabit time differently.