A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce (Im)perfect rhythm, an exhibition by Frédérique Q.R. Zacharia that brings together three interconnected bodies of work — typewritten compositions, sewn pages, and hand-stamped "quilts" — for the first time. This is Zacharia’s first solo show in New York City.

Zacharia’s journey began in January 2021, in the middle of the COVID pandemic, when she set out on a trip visiting thrift stores in the Hudson Valley in search of a typewriter and came home with two. What began as a small find became something unexpected: a quiet, absorbing practice built on repetition, rhythm, and the pleasure of an imperfect mark. Typing, for Zacharia, was never about words — it was about pattern, sound, and touch, a meditative activity that let the mind settle into something steadier and slower.

That same pull toward repetition carried into sewing and, later, printmaking. Zacharia began hand carving-stamps pressing them again and again to create serial imagery on a variety of (widely available/modest) papers such as Kraft paper, 4x4 notebook paper, letter sized printer paper and ledger paper. Individually printed sheets are gathered and sewn into larger "quilt" compositions, works that feel at once orderly and alive — uniform at a glance, but full of small variation up close.

Across all three bodies of work, the exhibition poses a single, unifying question: What emerges when a humble, ordinary tool is repeated past the point of perfection? It is a show about beginning something new later in life, starting small, and discovering that limitation is often where the real work begins.