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Drawn Voyeurism

An imagined solo exhibition by Vishwa Shroff exploring windows as sites of observation, intimacy, and narrative play drawn with delicate precision and layered with memory, mischief, and suspended time.

Vishwa Shroff

Have I already curated Vishwa Shroff? Yes, a few times. Would I like to do it again? Absolutely. And then again after that.

There are some artists I have the privilege of working with beyond the usual artist/curator dynamic, and Vishwa is one of them. She is not only someone I admire deeply but she’s a creative sister, a co-dreamer, my other half in visual language.
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One exhibition I’ve always imagined is a deeper exploration of “the window” as a motif in her work. A simple structure, architectural, visual, domestic - but in Vishwa’s hands, it becomes something else entirely. Her line suspends time. Her gaze makes the everyday mythic. We see windows framing dinners, conversations, private rituals. These glimpses, always partial, feel like memories caught mid-formation. The act of looking becomes the story.

“My work explores spatial and narrative possibilities of urban and architectural scenarios. The subtle metamorphosis that denotes an in-between and a simultaneously specific moment in time are recorded through my art.”
Vishwa Shroff

There’s a playful curiosity in these drawings, a shift from her more earnest works about architectural markings and slow transformation. These windows are about presence, attention, and the act of watching. I know she began drawing them more vigorously while living in Tokyo as a form of imagined connection, of placing herself in the rhythm of a new neighbourhood. This drawn voyeurism is both deeply personal and universally legible, the beginning of a ‘once upon a time...’

In this solo exhibition, I’d want to mirror that sensibility. I’d use light and shadow and floating installations, and layered transparencies. The shapes of the windows would cut through one another like pages of a book, forming vignettes and stage sets. Colour would be minimal but precise with the line, the edge, the cut-outs being the main focus.
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This is an exhibition about storytelling, sight-lines, and shared breath. It’s not just about windows, but what happens when we look through them and who we become in the process.

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Previous Vishwa Shroff Exhibition Installations

​PlanChest1: chairs, corridors, corners, curtains, portals to play
​​PlanChest2: Louise Lawler, Vishwa Shroff, Ralph Rugoff, Kobby Adli
PlanChest 3: gallery seating, vitrines, four rooms