Human Doors
A solo exhibition by Raffie Davtian
Date: October 15-21, 2007
Location:The “Avant-garde folk music club”, Yerevan
Curator: Susanna Gyulamiryan
All Others
By Susanna Gyulamiryan
The artistic project, bearing the title “Human Doors” which includes also, particularly, as certain ethnographic studies, as well as detailed and attentive work with the historical context.The basic issue, addressed in this project, has its advantage in the sense of its actuality, and is not failing to reflect on the issues and objectives, which are important for contemporary cultural and social context. It had succeeded to capture as by the means of photography, as well as by other instruments of visualization, one of the extremely characteristic features for the modern reality, that is: the interrelation between the sexes in general, and the certain panic or anxiety of gender identity, which is typical for the today’s world and for Armenia, arrived under the global influences, in particular.Today, the shattering of the fundamentals of patriarchal family leads to numerous uncertainties, which are accompanying that process with the loss of gender certainness, anxiety of interrelations between the sexes.These all things are urgent issues of the present day…
