Annemari Vardanyan↓

About the work

Who we are

In her work, Annemari Vardanyan‘s has long sought to connect the individualistic aspects of human experience with social and political themes that transcend the boundaries of diverse national cultures and world religions. Her paintings depict variations of figures within the space-time continuum, offering a uncompromising insight into a purely private sphere of human individuals and simultaneously calling into question the fixed cultural and social determining factors that shape their personality and inner identity. The hidden dimension of personal and family life produces symbols which, by means of appropriation, mirroring, self-portraiture refers to the phenomena of national, religious or political identity within the context of their interaction.

The artist‘s work is closely tied to her personal life which is characterised by the experience of cultural and national diversity. Central to her story are the events as experienced by an individual whose functioning is determined by a new, to a great extent alien culture, an individual who is inevitably, immediately confronted with the question of how to cope with it all? Although the /intimate aspect of human life is evidently the starting point for her art, Annemari Vardanyan bears in mind the inherent human social tendencies, not hesitating to reflect the issues of the present-day world and modern society in her work.

Within the historical and contemporary narrative of her native Armenia affected by the tragedy of the first genocide of the modern times and by the impact of war on the existence of the nation itself, the artist is acutely aware of the associated themes and motifs she confronts with the values of European culture and the reality of everyday life. The search for tolerance and unity in the face of diverse cultures has continually been reflected in her work. The effort to find harmony and understanding in the atmosphere of conflict is clearly the core of the intermingling of miscellaneous elements in her paintings.