SHEZAD DAWOOD

For his week at fig-2 in London, Shezad Dawood will use the text of his forthcoming novella as a conceptual starting point, developing it in the studio and 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 back onto itself, 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.