Shekasteh (شکسته)

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 shekasteh 2023

 Solo exhibition: Between Ornament and Structure, Barvinskyi Gallery, Vienna, Austria, 2024  

 Solo exhibition: Fault Lines, O Gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2024

 feather and wood

 Dimensions: (10 x 50 x 1 cm) x 3

 Selected Press Voices:

 Radio Zamaneh, 'Fault Lines', 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

 

 Walls created by language are the subject of Excommunicate (2021/22) and Shekasteh (2023). Both works create a communication barrier. In the former, language is a vehicle of exclusion, concealment and obfuscation. Likewise, “Shekasteh”, which takes its title from the term Shekasteh Nastaliq (literally ‘broken’ Nastaliq), features a line of trapped and broken feathers that are suggestive of corrupted and illegible calligraphy.