Daniel Lismore - “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken” - solo exhibition

Freedom to be yourself

“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken” – it is both Daniel Lismore’s life motto and the title of the exhibition which has been travelling the world since 2016. Sculptures created out of fabrics, jewellery and various objects that fascinate him are no different from what he wears on a daily basis. I can say that for 15 years I haven’t lived a day I could call a typical one – says Daniel Lismore. This diversity is a drive for my creative work.

“Who are you? Who would you like to be? How many versions of you are there?” – asks Lismore provocatively and answers the questions with the art he creates. His works are peculiar self-portraits and multiplied identities of the artist which are all full of colour, dynamism and movement. Daniel personifies freedom of the mind, enclosure of the body and a desire to become a project rather than the human being – says Wojciech Piotr Onak who curates Lismore’s exhibition in Stary Browar. American Vogue has named him the most eccentric man in London.

Meet the living work of art

The period preceding the opening of the exhibition in Stary Browar was extremely intense for Lismore. In September he worked with Naomi Campbell on the organisation of this year’s ‘Fashion For Relief’ fashion show. Currently he is preparing for the premiere of “The Mask of Orpheus” with music by Harrison Birtwistle, staged at the English National Opera, for which he designed costumes.