Shaheer Zazai _ Lot 04

Patel Brown Gallery

Title: AMTS_STGIB N3

About this piece: The digital works revolve around Microsoft Word and imagery drawn from traditional Afghan carpets. Through mimicking carpet-making methods, Zazai creates his own designs in Microsoft Word, where every knot of a carpet is translated into a typed character.

Dimensions: 20" x 18"

Medium: Digital print on watercolour paper

Value: $1,500

Date: 2023

Shaheer is an Afghan-Canadian artist with a current studio practice both in painting and digital media. His's practice focuses on exploring and attempting to investigate the development of cultural identity in the present geopolitical climate and diaspora. Over the years Zazai's material vocabulary has expanded into textile work, site-specific public art installations and video works with his lens becoming self-reflective.