
LOT 32 - Shaheer Zazai
Patel Brown Gallery
Title: CG1216For6080JT N5
Edition 4 of 5 +2AP
Dimensions: 16" x 12" (before frame)
Medium: Digital print on watercolour paper
Date: 2021
Shaheer Zazai is an Afghan-Canadian artist with a current studio practice both in painting and digital media. Zazai's practice focuses on exploring and attempting to investigate the development of cultural identity in the present geopolitical climate and diaspora. Zazai's 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. 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.