SHOWCASE

/ ARTIST / 2026

ARTIST: Shreyx
COUNTRY: India
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I am an architect and an artist, willing to learn new things every day, my surroundings, the space, its extensions, objects, the people, associations and our bodily experiences. As a practise, I started exploring and learning relations between the constructs/architecture of our minds (the inner-worldly spatialities) - like the dreamscapes, daydreams, emotions, and our feelings influence the real world lived spaces (the outer worldly spatialities) - like the spaces and the media that we consume.

I am Shreya Mehta, a graduate from the School of Environment and Architecture (SEA), Mumbai. Living in the constant, conflicting spatiality of my house, my desire for an in-between, and the abstract idea of space stem from it. Living between my projected self and my true inner self, my outward reality and my internal emotions and moods, the real space, and a virtual dream-scape, liminal, fictitious and imagined spaces became my escape and liberation. My practise involves turning the everyday/mundane spatialities, dreams, objects, associations, memories, and bodily experiences into landscapes of emotions, visualising the struggles of suppressed feelings and unspoken words through and in space. The main aim is to capture and understand these fictitious and virtual spatialities of our deep subconscious, analysing them and producing critical works deeply rooted in the everyday lived stories and landscapes of the modern world, while exploring and discovering newer ways of representing and drawing.

I seek to move away from the conventional way of thinking and representing, finding a more expressive, experimental way of perceiving this uncanny, liminal, and Kafkaesque. I aim to create outputs that bring out a sensorial, experiential and open-ended landscape. This way, the drawings and outputs remain more raw, authentic and personal with a universal lens, revealing the true, pure and deepest hidden desires. As a designer, I believe that our designs should be sensorial, authentic, experiential, problem-solving, and functional. A spatial idea should be a thought-provoking one, beyond conventional ways of thinking and living. I feel a space should be an apparatus that serves on a personal level with the user, yet also caters to and opens to and for the public or a larger group of people in a way. Designing a space includes feelings, emotions, and also observing the detailed/intricate elements that it brings with it. Architecture or spatial design should operate as a tool or an answer to slow things down, give time a pause in terms of space, and from everyday chaos, and bring calm and cater to the mind and body.

The countryside shop

Medium_Microns and some red paint on A4-size cartridge paper

Description_
Comics for me are like portals and thresholds between my mind, thoughts and my daily life, it's experiences and associations.
This comic strip is inspired by a japanese haiku poem and the artwork/illustration is also inspired by the serence japanese countryside setting.

Haiku_
In the open shop
Paperweights on Picture-books...
Young springtime breeze
~By Kito

Floor 217

Medium_ Black Ink with a dip-pen on A4-size cartridge paper

Description_
The door to my room is from the main passage of the house, from where everyone passes through all the time. My working desk is in the line the door which makes it a very transparent and vulnerable spot of the whole room. Everyone I despise living with, passes by and peeps in through the threshold, while I would never know their true intentions. This shows the vulnerability and the judgement that I feel and experience being in this space and spot.

The lift here acts as a metaphor for the time and the suddeness, as in when will I experience these gazes and be taken aback by the suddeness of it, while continuously exposing myself

From the Dining table

Medium_Microns on A5-size cartridge paper

Description_
This is the dining space from my Aunt's parents place in St.Louise, Missouri. I visited 4 summers ago. This was my favourite space in the whole house. The dining room overlooking the forest and their backyard. Their house sits in the middle of a very big lawn with trees scattered around. As their house has a big backyard and because it is near to the forest, they have deers visiting every now and then. They have fireflies all over the trees during summers, a swing hung on the tree branch, campfire, a small vegetable garden and lost of fun activities and sports. Full of love, warm food, hearty and beautiful conversations, celebrations, a space for playing and gathering and observing the animals that visit the yard all year round and also just a space of daydreaming and rest for everyone.

To this place which felt like a safe and comfort space to me, and which gave me a lots of good memories with lovely people and which taught me the importance of being and living in the moment.

The Brunch

Medium_Microns on A5-size cartridge paper

Description_
This was the Brunch spread with which I was welcomed to, by my aunt's parents. While eating and chatting away on that summer day, we were accompanied by a few thirsty hummingbirds drinking water from their water feeder just outside the dining room window.
That's when I realized the beauty of summers and what they should feel like, the warmth, and happiness of being with the right people, their love oozing through delicious food and everything around them. This was my portrait of thatvery moment captured through this drawing for them and to remember this memory for a long time.

Space Portrait

Medium_Digital illustration on Procreate using a dry ink brush

Description_

Even though it feels strange, it is still a part of me,
It's all that's around me, coming towards me,
Carried within and ending with me.
And when it all expands inside me,
Strangely it all starts growing more from me.
From me into this vast space and beyond,
Some might call it the void,
Some will see it as the beginning,
The beginning to end the other.
But one things' for sure,
Even if this seems new and alien,
It is still My space, that's both around and within.

The Gaze

Medium_Digital illustration on Procreate using a dry ink brush

Description_

Sitting in the center of an empty room on a desk alone. Suddenly felt an overwhelming presence rushing towards me through my peripheral vision. A huge black void seemed to be piercing its way through. Trying my best to concentrate on the task at hand, but it just kept getting closer and closer. All I could think was how its presence was becoming denser, bigger, and heavier. Suddenly, it was difficult to breathe or see clearly at all. When I started to think of running away from it, I felt the whole presence around me, already pinning me down, engulfed in it, all caught up and looking at me directly. Trying to suffocate me merely through its stares.

A breathe of fresh air

Medium_Digital illustration on Procreate using a dry ink brush

Description_
A breathe of fresh air?
Or breaking out from a jail of my own thoughts...

This illustration talks about how suffocating our houses or spaces around us are and how we constantly search for spaces of pause and rest.

Wandering (This house is not a home)

Medium_ Black Ink with a dip-pen on A4-size cartridge paper

Description_

I was in the wrong place,
Even though I realized that, I stayed there for a long time,
Long enough for the concept of time to stop and vanish,
Just like those memories that I once held,
While everything else around was under constant change,
The four walls around me just grew higher and higher,
Leaving me to wonder things like,
"Who/what am I becoming?"

The city-scapes

Medium_ Black Ink with a dip-pen and microns on A4-size cartridge paper

Description_
This illustration shows how the elements of a city interweaves, overlaps the various forms the life and space together, in a densely existing mass. Its so organic in nature that it starts resembling the complex labyrinths of our dreams.
The aim is to explore, research, and draw about the parallel complexities, organic growth, and transformations of the spaces in both the cities and our dreams. The similarities and common spatialities between the two like- overlaps, labyrinthine, complex paths, liminal spaces, which give the real worls dream-like qualities need to be explored more, maybe through drawings and scultures.
The ideas of scales, repitition, density, morphing and tranformation play major role in these spaces, how we think and how we experience them eventually.

Yutori house

Medium_ Brush pen on A4-size cartridge paper

Description_
Since I can remember, I have specifically been intrigued and attracted to houses as a concept. Be it mere elevations, the life which grow around it, the exeperience it gives to the people around it and outside, their scale in terms of things and objects and materials which make it feel aged and authentic and lived. They in certain ways reflects the insides of a person in the most raw sense to the people seeking to see and understand it.

They in many ways become thresholds between two worlds so different yet so connected and dependant on each other.

Yutori means a conscious act of slowing down to allow us to savour the world around us. It's the refusal of rush and to take a pause instead. No talking, just observing, absorbing the world around us with no goal to see. It's the spaciousness that we create when the spaces around us become suffocating and too much to handle.