"Enclaves" a solo exhibition by Farniyaz Zaker at Kendrew Barn Gallery

Farniyaz Zaker’s project "Enclaves" revolves around the themes of exclusion and belonging. It explores how our language, clothes and built environment engender controlled and delimited spaces and communities that can both foster and suppress our physical and mental selves.
Farniyaz Zaker is an Oxford-based, Iranian-born artist and researcher whose practice engages a variety of mediums, including textiles, sculpture/installation, drawing, print and video. Her works have been exhibited at the Sharjah Art Museum, the Ashmolean Museum, Pi Artworks Gallery, Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, the Laing Art Gallery, Contemporary Istanbul Biennale, the Venice Biennale, Artissima Art Fair and O Gallery.