Fine Art nominee

I've started my photographic project “Blue Sun” in June 2020, with the support of the "Multimedia Lab Grant" in Tbilisi.
The main idea of the photo-series is to help to change the perception of contemporary dance as well as of a female body as an instrument of art in Armenian society. In this context I show through my photos the work of Hasmik Tangyan, the founder of "CoChoLab Armenia" (Contemporary Choreography Lab). She's a contemporary dancer and performer in Armenia, who tries to develop the scene of contemporary choreography through teaching, research, production of performances and through giving an opportunity for her students to test their skills in different scenes.
The title "Blue Sun" is a sort of alternative method of narrative. The photo story contains some allusions about the atmosphere of the film "Solaris" by Andrei Tarkovsky, as well as general about the Soviet epoch.
Moreover the bluish photos reflect the mood of the novel "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem, from which it has got the title "Blue Sun".
The photographs illustrate the inner sense of transparency, the merging of the body with the space, the body as an art object and the body as an element of the universe.

Mane Hovhannisyan is an Armenian fine art and conceptual photographer. The preferred topics of her art are the reflection of the state in-between magic and reality, the correspondence of the human body to the natural and urban environment, as well as the discovery of old soviet architectural leftovers through the means of photography.

Twice she was a winner of contests of Mirzoyan Photo Library "Old Yerevan'' and "Landscape and Architecture", in which frames her photos were exhibited.
In 2020 she was honored with the “Multimedia Production Lab Grant” in Tbilisi.
In 2020-2021 her images were published in the in the print edition of “River Styx”, "High Shelf Press", "Third Iris Zine", "Cagibi", "Beyond Words", "Red Weather" and "Ponder Review" magazines.
In 2021 "Blue Sun" photo series was presented on the i-mediatheque of Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum. Moreover, five images were published as a part of the online exhibition "Dada & Democracy" by the "Artdoc" photography magazine and "Mind, Body, Spirit" by the J Mane Gallery.
At the same year her photo series "FABULA" was awarded in the Professional Fine Art category of the 7th Fine Art Photography Awards.