The directional and spatial qualities of Memoria Manet reflect the artist’s movement within the transitory space of a residential building. Shroff introduces a stage-like quality to the paper, where her body and its shifts through the site are reflected in the drawings. The title of the work is not a nod to the painter, but in fact, references ‘manet’, a technical term and command used in theatre to signal stage actors or props to remain on stage. Memoria Manet therefore, documents the artists progression through a space as she diligently notes her sense of movement from one frame to the next. In each frame, as Shroff moves from wooden floor to tiled floor, and finally to the end of a corridor to the staircase, she forces the viewer to see the constantly evolving space in this specific scene, while the ‘empty’ space around each fragment demand visual space of their own, enabling a moment of stillness. The work takes a cue from Shroff’s personal interpretation of Frank Stella’s lithograph works – illustrated in the accompanying catalogue essay by Hannes Schüpbach.