Vishwa Shroff (b. 1980, Mumbai)
Trained at The Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, and the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (UK) Shroff has participated in several exhibitions with her most recent solo exhibition ‘The Music of Buildings’ at Tarq, Mumbai (2022). She received the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists in 2011 and the Josuken Housing Research Grant in 2020. Shroff is the co-director of SqW: Lab and is represented by TARQ. She lives in Mumbai, India
Shroff’s practise is rooted in drawing, with a proclivity towards architectural forms that serve as compelling take-off points for a deeper contemplation on memory and our relationship with the material world. Her works seek to explore the narratives of lived experiences that lay embedded within spaces and surfaces.
“That is how we construct space, with an up and a down, a left and a right, an in front and a behind, a near and afar.” - Perec (1974)
At night when the body is still, somewhere in-between wakefulness and dream, when that darkness is broken only by the dim light penetrating through the window, the space of the room is created not by the movement of one’s body, but by the slowly shifting light as it slides over contours. The neurotic sleepless mind observes this slow moving light, indicative of both, the space one is in and time when such discoveries become
possible.