Drawing from personal and collective histories, Shiv Lalgi centralises the labouring body as a site of storytelling to explore the layered terrains of identity and the role of the quiet, often invisible process of survival, adaptation and becoming. By asserting value in stillness and the poetics of the unsaid, each composition characterised by a softly subdued but vivid palette, becomes an invitation to examine intimacies, infatuations and desires. Occupied in psychological landscapes, the figures seek liminal spaces within the canvas, those tender thresholds between light and shadow, waking and sleeping, presence and absence.

Shiv Lalgi (b. 2001, North West London) lives and works in London. She received a BFA from the Slade school of Fine Art, University College London, where she was awarded the Grocer’s Jubilee Scholarship, the Cass Art Painting award and later Shortlisted for the London Graphic Centre x Theo Paphitis Main Prize Award. Lalgi’s works have been exhibited in numerous group shows including Yearbook at Crème Fraîche, Art on a Postcard’s Winter Auction at the Bomb Factory Marylebone, Wake at Fitzrovia, Bedrock at the Crypt Gallery and Bandhan at Amdevand ni Gufa, India, among others.