Shezad Dawood presents The Terrarium

21 May 2021 - Published by Anna Grude

Shezad Dawood works across various disciplines, including: painting, film, neon, sculpture, performance, and digital media.

His practice often involves collaboration and knowledge exchange, mapping across multiple audiences and communities to ask key questions of narrative, history and embodiment. More recently he has been using VR to interrogate some of the most urgent issues of our time, such as migration, climate change and ideas around the post-human.

As part of Folkestone Triennial, Shezad Dawood presents The Terrarium, the second element of his Virtual Reality trilogy entitled Leviathan Legacy a major five-year multifaceted project that looks at the intersection between climate change, migration and mental health.

This virtual reality artwork is supported by CUPIDO.

This year, the fifth edition of Creative Folkestone Triennial will take place from Thursday 22 July – Tuesday 2 November and will present around 20 newly commissioned site-specific artworks by internationally acclaimed artists, inviting Folkestone residents and visitors to explore the town and its urban tales.