Color Theory (2025)

Color Theory , bandages and ink, 2025 -Close up

Color Theory, installation view, Museo delle Mura, Rome, Italy, 2026.

Color Theory (2025–2026)
Amir Zainorin

Color Theory is a work that continues to shift as I place it in different spaces. I use colored gauze bandages to trace the edges of architecture—along walls, floors, corners, and structural seams. I am drawn to these in-between areas, where things meet but never fully resolve.

The first version of Color Theory was shown at Kunstpakhuset in Denmark in 2025. In that installation, the bandages carried fragments of text—phrases that were broken, altered, and sometimes unclear. I was interested in how language could behave like color: unstable, open, and difficult to fix in place. Meaning was never complete, but scattered across fragments.

When I reinstalled the work at Museo delle Mura in Rome in 2026, I removed the text entirely. The space itself felt different—heavier, more historical, more exposed. Instead of adding language, I allowed the color and the repetition of the bandages to take over. The work expanded across the fortress walls, responding to their surface, rhythm, and scale.

I often think about the bandage as something meant to heal. But in this work, it doesn’t repair anything. It marks. It holds, but only temporarily. It suggests care, but it doesn’t resolve what is broken.

The materials are not meant to stay fixed. Over time, they loosen, shift, and slowly deteriorate. I don’t see this as damage. It is part of the work. The changes—caused by gravity, air, and time—are as important as the initial installation.

Color, for me, does not carry a single meaning. It moves between presence and fading. It can feel strong in one moment and almost disappear in another.

Each time I install Color Theory, it becomes something slightly different. I don’t try to control it completely. I let the space, the materials, and time shape the work. What remains constant is the idea that not everything needs to be fixed—that some things can exist in a state of holding, shifting, and slowly letting go.

Exhibition History

Kunstpakhuset
Ikast, Denmark
Solo exhibition Rhythm of Identity, 2025

Museo delle Mura
Rome, Italy
Installation along the historic defensive walls, 2026