Premio Combat Prize

The Woman In The Wall - The Woman In The Mall
The work is illustrating how both in traditional and in modern societies the female body is conflated with enclosure, privacy and the gendered places such as shopping malls.
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Dr Farniyaz Zaker is an Iranian born Oxford-based artist whose work has been internationally exhibited since 2002. Located between architectural theory and gender studies her art-practice and writing largely deal with the nexus of body, society and place.
Her practice ranges from site-specific installations to video, sound and drawing. Much of her practice explores how bodily practices and spatial awareness define our sense of identity, belonging and the very concept of knowledge. Her work is both generative and corrosive of boundaries, such as the one between architecture and clothing. It often employs transparency and opacity, repetition and memorisation, text and textiles and plays with notions of the public and the private, the physical and the psychological.
She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards. In 2011 she was awarded the Lamb and Flag scholarship from St John’s College of the University of Oxford, which enabled her to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Art. She was awarded the Birgit Skiold Memorial Trust Prize in 2011 at the International Print Biennial; and most recently, she has been selected for the Arte Laguna Prize 2014 (Sculpture and Installation Section), in Venice, Italy.
Her works can be found in private and public collections, including The Arter- Space for Art, an initiative of the Koc Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey, Video Insight foundation Collection, Bologna, Italy, and Mark Rothko Art Center, Daugavpils, Latvia.