Jahnvi Singh Rohet

B. 1998, Jaipur

'My work explores love, selfhood, memory, and the tension between holding on and letting go. Through a process of filtering, fragmentation, and repetition, I transform emotions, memories, and personal fixations into intimate visual forms. Rest and uncertainty become spaces where meaning can emerge without control, while love becomes a form of freedom - allowing the self to exist without the need for definition or resolution.'

Jahnvi Singh (b. 1998, Jaipur, India) is a painter whose work explores the unstable boundary between selfhood and vastness. Working with gouache, gold leaf, and drawing on paper, she draws from Indian miniature vocabularies while engaging contemporary questions of scale, embodiment, and psychological space. These references are absorbed rather than quoted, forming an internal visual language.

Her practice examines the body as a site where experience, attachment, and selfhood are registered. At its core is an attempt to exceed the limits of the singular self. Figures are treated not as fixed identities but as structures shaped by what they carry, retain, and cannot release. Processes of holding, filtering, and return, alongside repetition and shifts in scale, become ways of understanding how experience accumulates and takes form.

Positioned between interiority and expansion, her practice reflects an ongoing inquiry into how the self is constructed through what it cannot fully resolve or let go of. Informed by the idea from the Mundaka Upanishad, anor aniyan mahato mahiyan — that which is smaller than the smallest is also greater than the greatest. Her work holds containment and expansiveness in tension. It asks whether the self is a boundary, or whether it is already porous enough to hold what appears beyond it.

Her work has been exhibited in India and the United Kingdom, including at the Saatchi Gallery, Royal Overseas League (RBA Rising Stars Exhibition), Tate Modern (Off-Print), Lethaby Gallery, Five Years Gallery, and Trinity Buoy Wharf. She completed her MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (2022–2024), and currently lives and works in India.