Grounded in printmaking, Jaimini Jariwala’s practice unfolds through an intimate engagement with cloth, thread, and process. Her works are shaped by rhythm and repetition—gestures that mirror the continuous flow of thought, from waking consciousness to the subconscious terrain of dreams. Through a labour-intensive act of unpicking fabric and withdrawing individual threads, she transforms surfaces into sites of memory, where absence becomes mark and process becomes image. In her hands, the act of making becomes both constructive and subtractive, revealing histories embedded within the material itself. Jariwala’s practice today has expanded toward experimental approaches including monoprint, cyanotype, salt printing, and dichromate processes. Cloth, as her primary surface, holds both personal and cultural resonance: rooted in her upbringing in Surat, a city historically intertwined with textile production, and shaped by her familial proximity to the material. Within her work, thread emerges as a potent metaphor; at once fragile and tensile, it embodies thought, time, connection, and continuity. Her cyanotype works, often resembling X-ray-like impressions, further expose the vulnerability of the material, capturing what remains after transformation and removal.
Memory—particularly that of childhood—forms a quiet yet persistent undercurrent in her practice. Early encounters with cloth and thread reappear as tactile gestures and forms, while her images evoke what she describes as “fugitive moments”: fleeting impressions of time, space, and movement. Drawing from both personal recollection and philosophical inquiry—including Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space—Jariwala reimagines home not as a fixed structure, but as an accumulation of sensations, memories, and emotional attachments. Through simplified, almost childlike forms, such as the triangular outline of a house, she deconstructs and reconstructs notions of belonging, intimacy, and return.
Jaimini Jariwala received her Master’s degree in Printmaking and Graphics from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara (2017), following a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts (Painting) from the Surat School of Fine Arts, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat. Her practice has been shaped through multiple residencies, including Space Studio (Vadodara, 2022), Carpe Arte’s Immerse Residency (2022), Maze Collective (Delhi, 2022), Arthshila (Bihar, 2023), the Manorama Printmaker Residency (New Delhi, 2023), and Indigo Art Museum (Ahmedabad, 2024). Her work has been exhibited across India and internationally, including the London Original Print Art Fair (2025), Summer Shift (Delhi, 2025), Latent Echoed (Ahmedabad, 2025), Lateral Blinds (Delhi, 2024), Memory Keepers (Delhi, 2024), and earlier presentations such as the Verna Biennale (2018) and Pune Biennale (2015). She was awarded the Prafulla Dahanukar Gujarat State Award (2017) and continues to extend her practice through workshops and collaborative engagements, including conducting a cyanotype workshop at the KNMA, New Delhi (2022).
