Published by SKIRA. Edited by Jessica Cerasi, Karolina Svobodova. Text by Jessica Cerasi, Nicolas Bourriaud, Reem Fadda, Minah Lee. Interview by Zoé Whitley.
In a career spanning 25 years, Shezad Dawood (born 1974) has worked in painting, textiles, sculpture, ceramics, film and digital mediums. Bridging art, science, music, environmentalism and technology, his work follows two main avenues: modernist architecture in the Global South and ecology.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Gerrie van Noord. Text by Mark Bartlett, Shumon Basar, Jean Fisher, Mathew G. Gregory, Abdellah Karroum, Ghalya Saadawi, Elaine Speight & Charles Quick, Michael Stanley, Sam Thorne.
Published on the occasion of a touring solo exhibition, Piercing Brightness is the first major monograph on British artist Shezad Dawood (born 1974), who first won acclaim for his “zombie Western,” Feature. This volume surveys Dawood’s engagement with film, in particular his sci-fi feature film Piercing Brightness.
Shezad Dawood: Piercing Brightness