Saad Qureshi’s Elaborate Sculptures Play with Scale to Create Remembered and Imagined Places

Saad Qureshi’s Something About Paradise comprises three large-scale sculptures that rest on the floor or stretch up to meet the wall, supporting tiny houses and trees as if the earth has come alive and begun carrying the structures around. While developing the work, the London and Oxford-based artist traveled around the U.K. asking people what they thought paradise was like. He listened to descriptions of indistinct, fantastical places, fuzzy around the edges as if recalled from memory or dreams, and from these narratives he crafted what he refers to as a series of “mindscapes.”

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