{"id":11392,"date":"2023-06-06T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/?p=11392"},"modified":"2023-05-30T12:49:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T10:49:28","slug":"exhibition-night-in-the-garden-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/en\/art\/exhibition-night-in-the-garden-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition: Night in the garden of love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Sommaire<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69df3ed9567a4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69df3ed9567a4\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/en\/art\/exhibition-night-in-the-garden-of-love\/#De_tuin\" >De tuin<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/en\/art\/exhibition-night-in-the-garden-of-love\/#Parfum\" >Parfum<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/en\/art\/exhibition-night-in-the-garden-of-love\/#Performances_%E2%80%93_Choreography_by_Wan-Lun_Yu\" >Performances &#8211; Choreography by Wan-Lun Yu<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>In the face of the climate crisis, the garden inspires artists and becomes a place of creation and optimism. The &#8220;Night in the Garden of Love&#8221; exhibition, to be held at Wiels from 18 May to 13 August 2023, was conceived by artist Shezad Dawood and inspired by the musical work of musician Yusef Lateef.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11349\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11349\" class=\"center wp-image-11349 size-full\" title=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/photo2.jpg\" alt=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/photo2.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/photo2-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shezad Dawood,Night in the Garden of Love,2023.VR environment, durationvariable, produced by UBIK Productions, co-commissioned by WIELS, Brusselsand Aga Khan Museum, Toronto. Courtesy of UBIK Productions<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wiels, located in Brussels (Forest), is one of the most important European institutions for contemporary art. As a place of creation and dialogue between art and architecture, it presents national and international artists, both emerging and established.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11373\" style=\"width: 623px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11373\" class=\"center wp-image-11373 size-full\" title=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/5-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" width=\"613\" height=\"900\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shezad Dawood, Mutant Dancer 3, 2023. Acrylic on vintage textile hanging, 180 x 157 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Jhaveri Contemporary.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The exhibition features music and drawings by the late African-American musician Yusef Lateef, who was one of the first to incorporate traditional instruments into his music, pushing the boundaries of jazz. His Autophysiopsychic methodology aims to activate the physical, mental and spiritual senses. His drawings function as musical notes, presenting abstract and organic forms reminiscent of plants.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11370\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11370\" class=\"center wp-image-11370 size-full\" title=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/LATEEF-obit-superJumbo.jpg\" alt=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/LATEEF-obit-superJumbo.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/LATEEF-obit-superJumbo-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yusef Lateef<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shezaddawood.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shezad Dawood<\/a>, <\/span>the 50-year-old British artist of Indian and Pakistani descent, explores non-Western traditions; his work takes different forms and media, in this case music.<\/p>\n<p>For ten years, he has been exploring and practising the possibilities of virtual reality.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11364\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11364\" class=\"center wp-image-11364\" title=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7.jpg\" alt=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7-245x306.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7-380x475.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Glynn-Smith | Portrait of Shezad Dawood<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the first time outside the United States, Lateef&#8217;s original drawings, which form the basis of the exhibition, are presented.\u00a0 These works depict constellations of plants and organic forms, somewhere between figurative and abstract.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11361\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11361\" class=\"center wp-image-11361 size-full\" title=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/6-Yusef-Lateef.jpg\" alt=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" width=\"900\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/6-Yusef-Lateef.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/6-Yusef-Lateef-768x637.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yusef Lateef, Untitled, N.D. Pen, ink and pastel on paper, 55.8 x 76.2 cm. Private Collection of Ayesha Lateef. Courtesy of the Estate of Yusef Lateef and White Columns, New York.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_11382\" style=\"width: 693px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11382\" class=\"center wp-image-11382 size-full\" title=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yusef-Lateef-Untitled-N.D.-Pen-ink-and-pastel-on-paper-55.8\u2009\u00d7\u200976.2\u2009cm.-Private-Collection-of-Ayesha-Lateef.-Courtesy-of-the-Estate-of-Yusef-Lateef-and-White-Columns-New-York.png\" alt=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" width=\"683\" height=\"554\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yusef Lateef, Untitled, N.D. Pen, ink and pastel on paper, 55.8\u2009\u00d7\u200976.2\u2009cm. Private Collection of Ayesha Lateef. Courtesy of the Estate of Yusef Lateef and White Columns, New York.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"De_tuin\"><\/span>De tuin<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The 2 artists drew inspiration from the garden, an ancient symbol of man&#8217;s power, his power over a nature he wanted to control.<\/p>\n<p>Here, the garden is seen as a place of creation and optimism in the face of the climate crisis. His art is conceived as poetry that could usher in a new spiritual epiphany and lead to change.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11352\" style=\"width: 655px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11352\" class=\"center wp-image-11352 size-full\" title=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-1.jpg\" alt=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" width=\"645\" height=\"900\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shezad Dawood, Lion&#8217;s Foot Dancer, 2023. Acrylic on vintage textile hanging, 198 x 138 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Jhaveri Contemporary.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Parfum\"><\/span>Parfum<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The works presented here are accompanied by a unique fragrance, specially created by Shezad Dawood in collaboration with Olivia Bransbourg, of the Iconofly label, Parisian perfumer Nicolas Bonneville and Firmenich, designer of perfumes and aromas.<\/p>\n<p>This fragrance, with notes of jasmine and brugmansia, embodies the different plant scents found in the garden ecosystem, and is released in a large ceramic vase designed for this purpose by the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/fr\/art\/ceramique-regain-dinteret-pour-un-art-ancien\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> ceramics<\/a> studio Ofumum.<\/p>\n<p>The fragrance, a fusion of wood (xylon) and flora, is named after an invented mutant word, Xyloflor.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11355\" style=\"width: 776px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11355\" class=\"center wp-image-11355 size-full\" title=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4.jpg\" alt=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" width=\"766\" height=\"900\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shezad Dawood, The Wind Howls 2, 2023. Acrylic on vintage textile hanging, 210 x 138 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Jhaveri Contemporary.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Performances_%E2%80%93_Choreography_by_Wan-Lun_Yu\"><\/span>Performances &#8211; Choreography by Wan-Lun Yu<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>On 17 and 27 May, 4, 18 and 25 June, 9 and 16 July and 12 and 13 August, there will be performances by Brussels-based dancer Wan-Lun Yu, who represents the character created by Dawood, the Mutant, which appears throughout the exhibition. She embodies a kind of real-life avatar.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11385\" style=\"width: 544px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11385\" class=\"center wp-image-11385 size-full\" title=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Shezad-Dawood-Night-in-the-Garden-of-Love-2023.-Performance-rehearsal-Choreographer-and-Dancer-Wan-Lun-Yu.-Costume-Ahluwalia.-Image-Miranda-Sharp.-Courtesy-UBIK-Productions.png\" alt=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" width=\"534\" height=\"534\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miranda Sharp. Courtesy UBIK Productions | Shezad Dawood, Night in the Garden of Love, 2023. Performance rehearsal, Choreographer and Dancer: Wan-Lun Yu. Costume: Ahluwalia.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wiels<br \/>\nOpen Tuesday to Sunday from 11am to 6pm.<br \/>\nEvery first Wednesday of the month until 9pm.<br \/>\nAvenue Van Volxem 354<br \/>\n1190 Brussels<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiels.org\/fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wiels.org<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11367\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11367\" class=\"left wp-image-11367\" title=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villasdecoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7439269e91feeea22dac22c35cb6bb2a681bbe4e.jpg\" alt=\"VILLAS Decoration Night in the garden of love\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wiels<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the face of the climate crisis, the garden inspires artists and becomes a place of creation and optimism. 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