THE ARMORY SHOW 2022

Jhaveri Contemporary presents Shezad Dawood at The Armory Show, featuring Integrations, a new series looking atmodernist buildings across the Global South, and what thesereveal about the larger geopolitical backdrop that informedthem.

This body of work consists of paintings on jute, each an abstract portrait of a particular project for the builtenvironment, but titled as a portrait of the architect(s) whodesigned it. Accompanying the paintings are two glazedceramics that translate these buildings into moreanthropomorphic and domestic propositions.

Together, the works consider the utopian train of South- South collaboration embodied by the non-aligned movementand the Bandung (Asian-African) conference of 1955, theCold War and the petrodollar boom of the 1970s.

Jhaveri Contemporary’s presentation is part of the fair’s section Focus 2022: Landscape Undone. Curated by CarlaAcevedo-Yates, the section focuses on solo and dual-artistrepresentations examining the intersectionality of issuessurrounding the environment, and focusing on personal andpolitical climates as they interact with race and gender.