Fear of the Flower (2023) and Legends & Icons (2025) are now part of The Schedules Museum’s permanent collection. I also was lucky to have access of their incredible archive and collection.
In the Museum’s words –
“At the beginning of February, London-based artist Hormazd Narielwalla visited us and personally presented us with his artist’s book Fear of the Flower (2023) and a monograph of his work to date, Hormazd Narielwalla – Legends and Icons (2025). “I would love to gift it to you if you think this is something that fits in your collection,” he wrote to us when he was visiting Berlin as a participant in the group exhibition “Orbital” at the Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery.
“Fear of the Flower” consists of pages from an old pattern book (“Methode de Coupe” by Ladevèze & Darroux, originally published in 1860; Narielwalla used the 14th edition from 1949), which he painted over with flesh-colored images of bodies, mostly views of men’s anuses. Hormazd used Giorgia O’Keeffe’s sexualized flower paintings from the 1920s to 1950s as a reference.
Art historian Dr. Michael Petry writes in a text on the method, which is also published in “Legends and Icons”:
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