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Published by SKIRA and Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi

Editors
Jessica Cerasi and Karolina Svobodova

Consulting Editor and Copy Editing
Gerrie van Noord

Design
Fraser Muggeridge studio

Texts by Jessica Cerasi, Nicolas Bourriaud, Reem Fadda, Minah Lee; interview between the artist and Zoé Whitley

Shezad Dawood: Skin of Dreams is the first comprehensive monograph on the artist's work acoompanying his first mid-career retrospective. The monograph draws out the connections between the various strands of the artist’s practice, centring two major avenues: Modernist Architecture in the Global South and Ecology.

The publication features a key essay by the exhibition's curator Jessica Cerasi, which takes an in-depth look at Dawood’s painting practice. Additional essays by Nicolas Bourriaud, Reem Fadda and Minah Lee are complemented by an interview between the artist and Zoé Whitley, giving an in-depth and timely overview of the artist’s life and work.

The monograph is designed by Fraser Muggeridge studio, in collaboration with the artist’s studio, and includes a list of exhibited works and a timeline of the artist’s practice for the first time.