22nd February 2023 by Frances

Shezad Dawood

Walking in…

Shezad Dawood ‘HMS Alice Liddell’ 2022.

St Pancras Wires, The Circle, St. Pancras International Station, Pancras Road N1.

Dawood’s commissioned site responsive art installation, is a ‘new age travel vessel’, suspended from the ceiling, as if in flight. It’s form combines elements of the neo-gothic architecture of the station with a futuristic space ship. Dawood was inspired by the communities of London, steam-punk and the iconic character of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (the original manuscript being housed nearby in the British Library). Dawood sees Alice as ‘a traveller of our times: a proto-science fiction heroine who explored the quantum possibility of multiple but connected realities and universes.’ The title refers to the real person Carroll based his character on.

A QR code on site enables additional sound and visual elements to the installation, a new ‘augmented reality filter’, made in collaboration with sound artists and musicians.

The installation can be found at the start of the Orange Walk.