Drawing from personal and collective histories, Shiv Lalgi centralises the brown female 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, figures seek liminal spaces, those tender thresholds between light and shadow, waking and dreaming, presence and absence.

Shiv Lalgi (b. 2001, London) is a British Gujarati painter, recently graduated from the Slade school of Fine Art. Her decolonial practice seeks to be a necessary means to reclaim and reconcile. Lalgi's work has been featured in group exhibitions across London (UCL Art Musuem, The crypt, Kunstraum, Queer Circle, Metred Sqaured) and Ahmedabad Ni Gufa, India.