DESCRIPTION
What is memory? What is photographic memory? Is it a documentary? The photograph fails to reveal or reflect the realities as they were. In fact, all is lost. Photos are feelings. With each picture an attempt is made not to experience existence itself, but to experience its feeling. The photo is sensual, not documentary․ Memories are therefore an attempt to relive the past.
Hier are the reconstructed memories from Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh), especially the city called Shushi. The city itself is a symphony of nature, people, architecture whose voice was so loud I can still hear the drumbeats of that boundless silence. I lived every moment in this city with full concentration, I didn't want to miss anything.
I remember the shades of green, the stones, the heat, the sun, the silence, the white, the wet, the dust, the forest, the echo, the height, the mountains. There is limitless power in these mountains.
I am the memory.
If I remember, then I exist, and if I exist, then the memory also exists.
On September 27, 2020, a war broke out between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. Shushi has handed over to Azerbaijan.
AUTHOR
Sona Andreasyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia, in 1991.
Solo Exhibitions
2014 "Music Frame" in Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall in Yerevan, Armenia
2019 "vorTANZberg" in the MAP gallery in Schruns, Austria
2020 "In Zwischen" in T66 Gallery in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2014 "My world in one square Meter" in the Hay Art Gallery,
Yerevan, Armenia
2016 "Cyanotype: the alternative photo printing" in the Art academy in Gyumri, Armenia
2016 "Cyanotype: the alternative photo printing" in the Berlin Art Hotel,
Gyumri, Armenia
2018 "Gyumri and its artists" in the MAP gallery in Schruns, Austria
2018 "Leninakan-Gyumri" in the Berlin Art Hotel, Gyumri, Armenia
2019 "After 30 years" in the gallery of Mariam and Eranuhi Aslamazyan siblings in Gyumri, Armenia
2019 II International Print Biennial in Yerevan, Armenia
Projects
2019 Artist in Residence in Schruns, Austria
2020 Artist in Residence in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Work
2014 Official Potographer of the Golden Apricot 11th International Film Festival's Daily Newspaper in Yerevan, Armenia
2013-2015 Official photographer of the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra in Yerevan, Armenia
2015 Cameraman of the 13th International Music Festival in South Tyrol, Italy
2016-2018 Photo Trainer in the Swiss humanitarian foundation KASA in Gyumri, Armenia
