Scales 2022/23 #9
Solo exhibition: Between Ornament and Structure, Barvinskyi Gallery, Vienna, Austria, 2024
Solo exhibition: Fault Lines, O Gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2024
Solo exhibition: Enclaves, Kendrew Barn Gallery (St John's College), Oxford, UK, 2023
plaster, paint and staples
Dimensions: 45 x 45 x 4 cm
Selected Press Voices:
Radio Zamaneh, 'Fault Lines', Written by Farnush Hatam, https://www.radiozamaneh.com/799702
Darz Art, 'Fault Lines', https://darz.art/fa/shows/12607
Salis News, 'A Note on Farniyaz Zaker's Solo Show: Fault Lines', https://salisnews.ir/?s=farniyaz
The allure but also violence of exclusivity is thematised in Scales (2022/23), which uses paint and plaster from walls to illustrate both these qualities. Whilst the colouring of the scales of plaster is rather beautiful, the staples holding them together suggest pain and injury and the often arbitrary and violent nature of borders. Where the scales hint at the disintegration and transience of walls, the staples suggest their impenetrability.