Statement
Sabiha Dohadwala (b. 1995, Mumbai) is a textile artist whose practice navigates the liminal spaces between memory, materiality, and temporality. Her work engages with the ephemerality of memory—those transient, fragmented flashes of places once visited, now reconstituted in abstract, dreamlike reveries. In her hands, the act of weaving becomes a means to mediate between presence and absence, permanence and decay.
Dohadwala’s approach to textile is deeply rooted in an exploration of place. She meticulously traces the residual marks left by time, interrogating the fragility of these traces and their potential erasure. Through this act of construction, each weave serves as an archival gesture, freezing a moment within the matrix of time, yet acknowledging the inevitability of its transformation.
Dohadwala has completed her BFA in Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018. Her works have been exhibited in group shows at Gallery XXL, 2024, Space 118, 2024, Art Mumbai, 2024, Melbourne Museum, 2023, India Art Fair Parallel, 2023, Bikaner House, 2022, India International Centre, New Delhi, 2022, National Museum, Delhi, 2022, Sullivan Galleries and Health and Wellness Center, Chicago, Illinois, 2018.