That installation is called “HMS Alice Liddell,” and it’s suspended mid-air in The Circle area of the station. Pancras International’s public art program. He is also the latest artist to be commissioned for London’s St. A limited series of artist-signed soliflor and scent will be for sale at the show.ĭawood is best known for his 10-part film cycle “Leviathan,” which debuted at the Venice Biennale in 2017. The fragrance smells of jasmine and brugmansia, and has various plant notes from the Garden’s collectively imagined ecosystem.Īt the exhibition, the scent will be presented in a large ceramic vase using bamboo reeds for capillary diffusion. He worked with Olivia Bransbourg of the boutique perfume label Iconofly, the Paris-based perfumer Nicolas Bonneville and the fragrance house Firmenich. Her costumes will be mounted in the exhibition as sculptural works when not worn during performances.ĭawood also created a new scent called Xyloflor. The dancer Wan-Lun Yu will perform as The Mutant character on certain days of the exhibition. It is inspired by Lateef’s 1988 sci-fi novella “Night in the Garden of Love,” which looks at human evolution amid ecological concerns and dystopian structures, while expressing “the joyful possibilities of music, dance and higher-consciousness,” according to the artist. The show has been imagined as a conversation between Dawood and the late jazz musician Yusef Lateef. For me, it was about looking at those painted shapes and the panels he created, and reflecting them in the costumes for this otherworldly mutant character,” said Ahluwalia, adding that she also designed for the live dancer’s movement and flexibility. “I was able to look at Shezad’s painted collages and respond to them. “Mutant Dancer,” an acrylic on vintage textile work by Shezad Dawood for his new show, “Night In the Garden of Love Inspired by and Featuring Yusef Lateef.”
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