Leviathan is Shezad Dawood’s major multifaceted project, which raises awareness of the most urgent issues of our time: climate change, migration and mental health. Inaugurated in Venice in May 2017, the project comprises a 10-part film cycle, sculptures, paintings, neon, and virtual reality works. The project is developed by Dawood in dialogue with a wide range of marine biologists, oceanographers, political scientists, philosophers, neurologists and trauma specialists, who contribute to an extensive public programme and research archive, available on leviathan-cycle.com (follow the journey on social media: @leviathancycle).

Shezad Dawood, The Terrarium, 2020. VR, duration variable, (featuring parts of Anthropocene Island TAB17 by ecoLogicStudio and excerpts from The Terrarium Inventory by Graham Fitkin) is commissioned for Creative Folkestone Triennial 2021 and Kai Art Center by UP Projects and is supported by CUPIDO, a project co-funded by the European Union and Arts Council England and Tallinn Culture Department. Courtesy of UBIK Productions.