by Tamar Hovsepian

New York, 2024 – Atamian Hovsepian Curatorial Practice is pleased to announce the exhibition of Armenak Grigoryan/amo’s work Being Inside/Resistance (2018) in New York City. Grigoryan’s interdisciplinary practice “is invested in the critical constitution of the public sphere,” as art historian Angela Harutyunyan describes it.

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In a black box made by the artist, a video plays on a loop, depicting the artist in an extremely emotional stage. Placing the moving image in additional boundaries, depriving it from its context and sound the artist neutralizes the sensuality, transforming it into a mere tool for art. The contradictory and supplementary unity of the two forms – the video and the black box – becomes an object that relates with art from within. This form of inner relation condenses the contradiction of culturally inherited mores on the one hand and the yearnings to overcome them in modern life on the other. Grigoryan was born in Armenia in 1985. He has a PhD in Arts from the Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts. He is also a curator and teaches drawing and design at Universities in Armenia.