Postcards from the Forest is a moving meditation on love and the threat of its sudden retreat. In 2009, the end of an important friendship forced the novelist and artist Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi to move from Bombay – a city of 18 million people – to Matheran, a forest town populated by 5000. From this solitary reflection emerged nine eerie and fantastic photographs accompanied with text 'stories' that summon to mind the narrative force of Sophie Calle and Duane Michals.

The show’s second part, The Toy Train, are visual notes addressed to the artist’s friend: magical and witty reconstructions of forest life as seen through Matheran’s unique toy train. Intimate and tender, funny and clear-minded, these originally sized and framed works are a lyric counterpoint to the nine language photos. Both bodies of work explore powerful themes of lament and nostalgia, and how we retrieve through art those lost to life.

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s debut novel, The Last Song of Dusk, won the Betty Trask Award in the UK, the Premio Grinzane Cavour in Italy, and was nominated for the IMPAC Prize. Shanghvi’s new novel, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008, was a number one bestseller.

His debut show of photographs, The House Next Door, opened at Sweden's Galleri Kontrast and showed at the Matthieu Foss Gallery, Bombay and Vadehra Art in Delhi - all in 2010. He was part of the India Art Summit 2010 and Sakshi Art Gallery will exhibit 99 of his works at the India Art Fair 2011.

Shanghvi has been voted: India Today’s 50 Most Powerful Young Indians; Times of India’s 10 Global Indians; Hindustan Times: 10 Most Creative Men; Sunday Times UK: The Next Big Thing; New Statesmen UK: India’s Ten Bright Lights; Elle Magazine’s 50 Most Stylish People; La Stampa, Italy: World’s 10 Best Dressed Men, Men's Health Style Icon 2011.

Shanghvi lives in Bombay and is a critic for TIME magazine.