SHEZAD DAWOOD – WOLF PANEL
2013-12-30Comprising textile paintings, sculptures and neon work, Dawood’s installation plays with the gallery space suggesting doubling and assonances.
Seduced by an ambiguous Harvest Moon, the visitor is introduced into a suspended and mysterious eco-psycho-landscape inhabited by the ghostly figure of the wolf, a mythological omen of destruction, war and death.
In a conceptual balance between the decorative and the perverse, the treasured still life sculptures function as vanitas evocative of a sense of emptiness. Here the predator becomes the prey like in a shamanic journey or ‘wolf trance’ of transition to undergo a spiritual re-birth. Through this transformation, knowledge and consciousness emerges.
Shezad Dawood’s work explores the multiple possibilities engendered by the play between cultures, histories and fictions. Notions of authorship and representation are deconstructed by working with a steady stream of collaborators mapping cross cultural influences and trajectories.
Exhibition runs through to February 1st, 2014
Paradise Row Gallery
74a Newman Street
London
W1T 3DB
