Primeval Relationship I 2014
Solo exhibition: Between Ornament and Structure, Barvinskyi Gallery, Vienna, Austria, 2024
Solo exhibition: Something There Was That Must Have Loved a Wall, Pi Artworks Gallery, Istanbul, 2016
Solo exhibition: Primeval Relationship, The Ruskin, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2014
wool and cotton (hand-woven carpets)
70cm x 2cm x 450cm
Selected Press Voices:
Based Istanbul, Something There Was That Must Have Loved a Wall, https://www.basedistanbul.com/en/something-there-was-that-must-have-loved-a-wall-2
Artfulliving, https://www.artfulliving.com.tr/project/2214/farniyaz-zaker
Made in Mind Magazine, https://www.madeinmindmagazine.com/farniyaz-zaker
MA-Mutual Art, https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Farniyaz-Zaker--Something-There-Was-That/3CA953D383078C34
"Clothing and architecture are interconnected and engaged in a primeval relationship in which the original principle of clothing has influenced architecture." Gottfried Semper
The reversal of the roles of ornament and structure is also at the heart of “Primeval Relationship I”. The work covers parts of the gallery’s walls and floor with four handwoven white carpets, whose distinguishing trait are their unusually elongated fringes. As a result, this underlying structural element – which is part of the carpet’s warp and the first thing that appears on the loom – takes on the main decorative function of the otherwise unadorned carpets.