HOME IS WHERE THE CHANDELIER HANGS
Zena Assi's 'City Walls' confronts and moves the viewer at first glance. Rules and patterns are abolished and the viewer is drawn into a dense urban composition. Their gaze wanders over a conglomeration of façades, tangled power cables, signage, people and their everyday objects. Like ornaments or crowns, the city inhabitants are enthroned on top of the architecture. Exterior space and interior space merge, the location and scale of bodies and things are reinterpreted and they take on an alternate value. Zena Assi's work shows the commonplace and the true. They are poetic and turbulent.
The lebanese artist Zena Assi uses various supports and mediums to document and explore the cultural and social changes and put on record our urban contemporary environment’s imprint as well as the impact of our society’s ideologies and political tendencies.
The solo exhibition at Galerie & Edition Stephan Witschi in Zurich is her first exhibition in Switzerland and will run from June 10thuntil July 16th 2022. Zena Assi will be present at the gallery on June 10 and 11 and on June 11 there will be an Artist Talk.