The Saloni Doshi Collection
in collaboration with Asia Society India Centre

present

IN QUIET MEASURE

Works from the Saloni Doshi Collection
Curated by Jaiveer Johal

12 November – 12 December 2026
11 AM – 5 PM
Open daily, including Sundays & public holidays

Space118 Art Foundation, Mumbai

By appointment only.

To schedule your visit, please write to salonidoshicollection@gmail.com or call +91 98200 98755.

About the Exhibition

In Quiet Measure brings together figurative works from the Saloni Doshi Collection, placing the human and animal figure, and the recognisable world around it, at the centre of artistic enquiry.

Built over years of collecting, the exhibition brings together artists who use figuration as a language through which to explore the body, identity, memory, emotion, conflict, intimacy, and our relationship with the world beyond ourselves.

Rather than simply depicting the figure, these works use it as a starting point for looking more closely: at gesture and posture, at the spaces bodies inhabit, and at the psychological and emotional worlds they contain.

Curated by Jaiveer Johal, In Quiet Measure considers the enduring possibilities of representation and the ways in which the familiar figure can continue to surprise, unsettle and reveal.

Curatorial Note

It is a singular honour when a fellow collector asks you to curate a show from their collection. It is an act of trust—an opening not only of the works they have gathered, but of their mind, their memories and, in many ways, their heart.

I have long been fascinated by figuration: by the figure as something more than what is immediately visible or measurable. I am interested in the moment when the body is pushed to the edges of recognition—distorted, fragmented, exaggerated or almost dissolved—yet remains unmistakably within the realm of figuration.

The collection is expansive in scale, material and sensibility. Some works offer only the faintest suggestion of a body; others assert it with force. There are figures shaped through excess and collision, and others that arrive quietly, through restraint. Together, they reveal the many ways in which the figure can hold emotion, memory, history and experience.

The exhibition also asks us to reconsider how we look. Do we see the figure as the hero of an image, or as part of a larger world? The spaces around the body—landscape, architecture, objects, emptiness—are equally important in understanding how the figure emerges, moves, is watched and is transformed by what surrounds it.

I have thought of the exhibition as a journey: from the outside world to interior thought; from the material self to land and season; and finally to the intimacy of the held object and the private glance.

I have endeavoured to move the rasika from encounter with the outside world, to interior thought, to the material self, outward to land and season, then down to the held object and private glance. 

I invite you to encounter the body as a site of history—personal, political and, at times, policed—and also simply as a source of pleasure, immediacy and wonder. At its best, figuration does not merely show us the body; it reminds us of what it means to inhabit one.

Jaiveer Johal