exhibition

Shezad Dawood

Shezad Dawood

23.Nov.07 - 20.Jan.08
Wed - Sun, 12 - 6pm

Paradise Row
17 Hereford Street
London E2 6EX
+44(0)207 6133311
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Tube Liverpool Street, Bethnal Green, Spitalfields / Brick Lane

In his first major London solo show Shezad Dawood presents a major new series of sculptural works, using neon, paper and tumbleweeds, relating to the Islamic tradition of the '99 Names of God' and alongside a series of paintings that present a dark, surreal vision of the American Wild West. The works attempt to find a point of reconciliation between two seemingly diametrically opposed cultures, that of Islamic spiritualism and the myths and values of the American Wild West, especially as articulated in The Western film tradition. The works propose the formlessness of the desert and the empty wilderness, key elements in both cultures, as a place where such reconciliation may be found.