BV Doshi’s need to dream

The award-winning architect, who is showing at Frieze London, looks back at his creative practice and the art he made during the pandemic

BV Doshi is in his ninth decade, but you will never catch the architect whiling away his time. Over the last year and a half, the Pritzker Prize winner has been keeping busy working on his art. “I’m experimenting with different mediums without any baggage or ideas. So I am constantly discovering the unexpected,” he says.

Earlier this year, he participated in a group show at New Delhi’s Bikaner House. The exhibited works included two sculptures, canvas paintings, drawings, and even a teak wood door — all varied, but, as he explains, each has been built, experimented on and reworked over stretches of time. “Each time has something else to say, if you’re sensitive. And so I’m trying to connect to that particular time at that particular moment.” His paintings are currently on display at Frieze London.