Shezad Dawood
30 Mar - 05 Apr 2015
SHEZAD DAWOOD
fig-2 13/50
30 March – 5 April 2015
For his week at fig-2, Shezad Dawood uses the text of his forthcoming novella as a conceptual starting point, weaving diverse strands of visual and literary references into an immersive virtual tapestry. ‘The Room’ is a digital animation that questions how we read and experience both the physical and the intangible. Mirroring the space of the ICA Studio, the animation takes the viewer on an epoch-spanning satirical journey into occult conspiracy and the true powers that govern the world. Alongside the interior/exterior space of the animation, Dawood is showing a new painting and accompanying woodcuts that chart an analogue, and analogous development of the project in more traditional media, as a fluid continuum of critical gestures and craft.
SHEZAD DAWOOD CV
Shezad Dawood (b.1974, London, UK). Current exhibitions include: Towards The Centre. Once More, Sadler’s Wells and Tate Visual Art Commission (2014-15); The Anthropology of Chance, OCAT, Xi’an, China (2014-15). Recent solo exhibitions: Towards the Possible Film, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (2014-15) and Parasol Unit Foundation For Contemporary Art, London (2014); Wolf Panel, Paradise Row, London (2013-14); Piercing Brightness, KINOKINO, Sandnes, Norway (2013); Trailer, Art in General, New York (2013); Shezad Dawood: New Dream Machine Project with PRAED, Parasolstice, Parasol Unit, London (2013); Piercing Brightness, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (2012).
fig-2 13/50
30 March – 5 April 2015
For his week at fig-2, Shezad Dawood uses the text of his forthcoming novella as a conceptual starting point, weaving diverse strands of visual and literary references into an immersive virtual tapestry. ‘The Room’ is a digital animation that questions how we read and experience both the physical and the intangible. Mirroring the space of the ICA Studio, the animation takes the viewer on an epoch-spanning satirical journey into occult conspiracy and the true powers that govern the world. Alongside the interior/exterior space of the animation, Dawood is showing a new painting and accompanying woodcuts that chart an analogue, and analogous development of the project in more traditional media, as a fluid continuum of critical gestures and craft.
SHEZAD DAWOOD CV
Shezad Dawood (b.1974, London, UK). Current exhibitions include: Towards The Centre. Once More, Sadler’s Wells and Tate Visual Art Commission (2014-15); The Anthropology of Chance, OCAT, Xi’an, China (2014-15). Recent solo exhibitions: Towards the Possible Film, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (2014-15) and Parasol Unit Foundation For Contemporary Art, London (2014); Wolf Panel, Paradise Row, London (2013-14); Piercing Brightness, KINOKINO, Sandnes, Norway (2013); Trailer, Art in General, New York (2013); Shezad Dawood: New Dream Machine Project with PRAED, Parasolstice, Parasol Unit, London (2013); Piercing Brightness, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (2012).