Exhibition
Mekhitar Garabedian: Un bel été quand-même
24 Jun 2015 – 29 Sep 2015
Event times
The exhibition is open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10 am to 6 pm, and until 9 pm on Thursdays
>> There are no Thursday late night openings between 21 July and 15 August.
Cost of entry
Free access
Address
- 23 Rue Ravenstein
- Brussels
Bruxelles - 1000
- Belgium
The Belgian-Armenian artist Mekhitar Garabedian explores in his impressive photos, films and installations the impact language has on the development of a ‘migrant’s’ identity.
About
Your origins and family history follow you wherever you go, as artist Mekhitar Garabedian knows only too well. He lived in Syria and Lebanon before moving to Belgium as a child. He lives and works in Ghent. His family fled the Armenian genocide 100 years ago. Garabedian’s family history and migrant origins inspire him in his work. He uses them as a starting point to explore how identity develops in a society which has been and still is increasingly shaped by migration. With sound, neon, photography, text, video and in publications the artist shows us that identity is always in a state of flux. He likes to quote the French poet Arthur Rimbaud: “Je est un autre.” – “I is someone else”, an expression that applies to everyone and particularly to the migrant. Mekhitar Garabedian is a researcher and guest professor on the Installation and Media Art programme at the KASK/School of Arts Ghent.