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

The earliest artworks we know reveal a fundamental human impulse: the desire to depict the world around us. Before language became sophisticated enough to explain the world, there was the image—a way of saying this is what I saw, this is what surrounded me, this is what moved me without needing a single word.

Figuration begins here: with looking. The tilt of a head, the weight of a seated body, the movement of a limb, the relationship between anatomy and line, and the ways in which form gathers the body into an image.

In Quiet Measure, drawn from the personal collection of Mumbai-based patron Saloni Doshi and presented by The Saloni Doshi Collection in collaboration with Asia Society India Centre, brings together artists for whom recognisable, real-world subjects remain central to how they think and make. For these artists, figuration is not merely a means of representation but a language through which to consider the world. A landscape can hold memory and place; a face can become a meditation on identity; an animal can speak to instinct, vulnerability, or forces beyond our control.

The figure, returned to again and again, reveals how much it can contain. A body caught in rupture can speak to fracture and conflict. A face turned inward can suggest the quieter architecture of the mind. A form reduced to the intimacy of the miniature invites closeness and contemplation. A figure placed alongside a landscape, an animal, or the wider world speaks to exteriority—to everything beyond the self that nevertheless shapes it.

What draws our attention first: the posture of the subject, the space around it, the expression, or the direction of its gaze? And why does the figurative continue to hold our attention when so many other forms of representation have emerged?

While the figure remains central, the spaces surrounding it reveal something of the worlds in which these bodies exist. We move closer, then step back, gradually entering the distinct realities each artist has constructed. What remains is the figure itself—in its vulnerability and strength, its humour and grotesqueness, its familiarity and disturbance.

In Quiet Measure is an invitation to look again: at the familiar, at the human form, and at an expression of reality that, even when it seems fully understood, remains capable of surprising us.