“The photos create this sort of dreamlike space of fantasy–looking at what’s happening in our world and needing the light and positivity, desiring for things to get better, and figuring out how my story fits into the bigger picture,' says Richie Shazam.
Over the phone from their apartment in New York City at the end of last week, Richie Shazam likens their brain to a spinning hamster wheel. “My entire life, I’ve always needed to move and shake and be outside and interact with the world and people,” Shazam says, all of which influences the multimedia art that they create. That sort of artist-as-activator persona was on full display at the hyperactive one-night installation they put together in a loft in the West Village last year.
They’ve incorporated recordings of these virtual conversations in the self-isolation diary that they’ve shared with Vogue.com—British actress Maisie Williams, model Paloma Elsesser, and chef Danny Bowien video chat with Shazam and Ben Draghi, their partner, whom they’ve been self-isolating with and collaborating with . Together, they talk through how each of them have been spending their days under lockdown. “The videos were a relief, a sort of cathartic experience,” Shazam says.
Like Shazam’s IRL exhibit last year, their diary gives expression to all of the different parts of Shazam’s identity, which is now unfolding itself indoors as Shazam relays. There’s a video of Shazam shot from afar, dressed in a vibrant, full-coverage lime-green dress sitting in their windowsill with a mask on, and a photograph of Shazam in a swirling pink spaghetti strap dress with a bisected orange in their hands, which all comes together to represent the state of their world right now.
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