Zagros Mehrkian exhibition

Language is a never-ending edifice, built of stones of meaning and mortar of silence. As an explorer of the cracks in language, lost in its labyrinth, I work not to complete the edifice, but to recognize its cracks.

My work explores the space between languages, between voice and body, between what can be said and what remains unspoken. In a world built on vertical axes of power and hierarchy, I extend my research into horizontality, onto that surface where everything becomes equal: languages, bodies, sounds. I'm not looking for the truth of language, but the living experience of its incompleteness. My work is an invitation to remain on that frontier, where voice becomes silence and silence opens up another language. Here, translation is no longer transmission, but manifestation of the instability of meaning; each performance, each sound, each gesture marks the infinite effort to understand and accept that to understand is also to recognize one's own limits and their representation.