Vishwa Shroff, b.1980

A Mumbai based artist exploring architectural forms.

Shroff’s practice sits between geometry and architecture. Her drawings bristle with clipped precision and invite questions about our relationship with buildings when they are in front of us on paper. There is something reassuringly analogue about the arrangements she composes. Perhaps it’s the peaceful, self-contained combinations of mathematics. Perhaps it’s the nearly abstract flatness, perhaps it’s the perky combination of colour.

She lives and works in Bombay (disputes over Bombay and Mumbai to be had elsewhere) and has been exhibited across the world. She is represented by TARQ.

‘Vishwa Shroff’s drawings of architecture don’t duplicate what is there; they render what she sees’ writes Hannes Schüpbach.

I wonder what Schüpbach means. Do any of us see with such mathematical sharpness? Maybe I’m alone. I like them, though. I like their playfulness, and their confidence, that they’re still but zippy, and the fact they make sense without you having to know exactly what you’re seeing.