What is the relation between us and our ancestors? What traditions and values they kept? How we imagine relations between two bodies? How we find exact distance between them? The common point of these two topics is the changing body culture. The freedom of body and how it should be presented in the society is the main point of disagreement between generations and between genders. The way we express our emotions, feelings through body and the mode in which we make use of that freedom can lead to conflicts, and conflict is this case is the search for the right distance in the relations. But is there a perfect distance in any kind of relations? Can this ever be objective? Is there a way to live today’s contemporary life and still not loose the link with the our ancestors, or how to stay conservative still living in the present. Levon Fljyan 25.08.2012
Body – perfection of sliding lines, harmony, music, now broken down to a reality of squares, rapidity of repetitive lines, seemingly identical, and too rational for a body to comprehend. Body – unity in itself, inseparable and undivided, given to each one and for all – same as our heritage, history, family: undeniable, unchangeable. Exposing the intimacy of nude body and lining it with the covered one, showing the contrasts and uniting them on the fragile line of shame and guilt. Cover – uncover. Reality – illusion. Refuge - escape. This is an attempt to separate, divide, cluster down, and thus touching the untouchable – notions not even questioned. Using the same starting material construct own interpretation through filtering, purifying, analyzing, denying and eventually accepting to construct further. Anna Yeghoyan 18.08.2012
Eastern look 30x40cm, graphite, pencil on paper
Girl /Attack 30x40cm, graphite, pencil on paper
One of our ancestors 30x40cm, colored pencil on papera
Girl/Dynamics 35x35cm, graphite, pencil on paper
Our ancestors - 2 30x40cm, graphite, pencil on paper
Boy+Girl 35x35cm, graphite, pencil on paper
Women 40x50cm, graphite, pencil on paper
Girl from the back 25x25cm, graphite, pencil on paper
One of our ancestors - 2 40x30cm, graphite, pencil on paper
The Eye 35x35cm, graphite, pencil on paper
Our ancestors 30x40cm, colored pencil on paper
Playgirl 40x30cm, graphite, pencil on paper
The Look 30x40cm, graphite, pencil on paper
Pixels Feels like going back to the start‌ Folding back the unfolded dreams Choking on the pronounced sounds Loosing touch with the promised ground Hearing backward echo of screams All the unity binding once And the nudity once so shameful In the end no one dares to stay graceful And no courage for final glance If we ever would risk to divide There is nothing that we decide Every story was already told All the details exposed and worn out And no room left for even a doubt First they push us and than they would hold Splitting images down to squares And constructing a game with no rules It is idle in structure that fools Being rational honestly scares Would one day we stop using the heart? Anna Yeghoyan 17.06.2012