THIS ORNAMENTATION IS WHAT THIS [WALL] IS BUILT FOR 2019
Solo exhibition: Between Ornament and Structure, Barvinskyi Gallery, Vienna, Austria, 2024
Solo exhibition: Cut From The Same Cloth (yekparche), O Gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2020
wood
Dimensions: 650 x 12 x 8 cm
THIS ORNAMENTATION IS WHAT THIS [WALL] IS BUILT FOR, interrupts the act of reading and, like Zaker's other text-based works, invents a language that integrates letters and words with objects and surfaces, combining them into new types of signifiers. In this installation, Zaker merges words with the gallery's wall, emphasizing the unity of structure and ornamentation both in its message and in the act of reading.