Name: Nairi
Surname: Khatchadourian
Address Sose 28/1 City Yerevan Postal Code 0019
Country Armenia
Phone Number 0037455221289
Email n.khatchadourian@gmail.com
Website www.aha.am
Billing address ( if different than above) same

Participation in other Art Fairs or major shows ( last 3 years )
2022
– “Hanging Garden” exhibition at the Cafesjian Center for the Arts (June-August 2022)
– “Hripsime Simonyan: A Retrospective” at the National Gallery of Armenia (Fall 2022)

2019-2021
– “We Stand” vol. II open-air exhibition at the Lovers’ Park (25.04-25.05.21)
– “Inside Out” exhibition at the Cafesjian Center for the Arts (19.03.21-9.06.21)
– “We Stand” vol. I exhibition at the Cinema House (11.20)
– “Pieces” exhibition at the Komitas Museum-Institute (21.06.19-21.08.19)
– “The Future Thinker” open-air exhibition at the Komitas Park (29.06.19-29.09.19)

List of the artists to be presented at AAF 2022
Anush Ghukasyan

Anush Ghukasyan is regarded as one of the most promising contemporary artists of the younger generation of Armenia. Born in 1985, Ghukasyan obtained her MA in Graphic Arts from the State Academy of Fine Arts. Her body of work moves freely between graphic arts, printmaking, ceramics, sculptures, and site-specific installations, which explore the human body and its relation to the environment, identity, memory. In 2017, together with photographer Nelly Gevorgyan, she exhibited her ceramic sculptures in the show “111” held at Dalan Art Gallery, dedicated to the 111th birth anniversary of Frida Kahlo. In 2018, she exhibited her “Calendar” installation in the collective exhibition “Power Nap” curated by Sona Stepanyan at the Yerevan Modern Art Museum. Ghukasyan also participated in
the collective exhibition “12-12-12 Hayp Pop Up Retrospective” curated by Anna Gargaryan in 2018. She presented the mixed-media installation “Peeping Tom” made of clay, glaze, lamps, paper, and metal molds. In 2019, curator Nairi Khatchadourian commissioned her and Vahram Galstyan to create an installation dedicated to Komitas Vardapet’s 150th birth anniversary. Entitled “Pieces”, the exhibition was shown at the Komitas Museum-Institute and received the 2020 President Prize of Armenia (Boghossian Prize). Ghukasyan participated in the collective exhibition “Artsakh Fest” in Stepanakert. Together with curator Nairi Khatchadourian, Ghukasyan had her first solo exhibition at the Cafesjian Center for the Arts in Spring 2021, presenting her large-scale installation “Inside Out”. In the framework of the exhibition, the first bilingual monograph of the artist was published. Ghukasyan also participated in the collective exhibition of the 2021 Annual Festival of Alternative Art the Center for Contemporary Experimental Art in Yerevan curated by Grigor Muradyan and Mariam Aleksanyan. With the invitation of different institutions, Anush Ghukasyan is teaching ceramics in Armenia’s regions organizing workshops with the youth and with people with mental
illnesses. The result of the ceramic workshops have been and will be exhibited in Yerevan.

Statement/ Description of the proposed show
IMPRINTS

Anush Ghukasyan’s body of work moves freely between graphic arts, printmaking, ceramics, sculptures, and site-specific installations, which delve into questions of time, memory, the environment, identity, sexuality, and the human body.

In her new installation “Imprints”, the artist explores the notion of identity crisis and the pressures of assimilation and acculturation experiences. She presents a series of distinct objects anchored in different cultures from different eras: a woman bust from the Hellenistic tradition, a large jug (demijohn) from the Soviet period, an indoor plant, a rabbit inspired by Japanese contemporary culture, etc. All objects are imprinted with a similar dotted print to playfully and critically obscure the individual identities of each object and signal the assimilation and identification issues present in our contemporary societies.

All objects are standing still, sculpted with the same material, ceramics, of the same size and with similar prints. The artist uses this lens to show what is at stake in the context of globalization and the erosion of traditional norms, how different cultures and histories overlap, how nature and heritage are wounded and permanently scarred by imprints of power and destruction. In these aesthetically and playful objects, Ghukasyan introduces a tension in their relationship and probes and questions the notions of perception, time, and the relationship between identity and the body.

The installation being a continuity of her personal project “111”, the artist shows how imprints can protect us but also harm us. She combines ceramics and prints into one installation addressing paradoxical notions surrounding cultural identity crisis, inner and outer realities, and economic and social relations.

Nairi Khatchadourian

Approximate booth Dimensions and pricing.
Small – USD 300.00