Silence IV (Լռության կաթիլային)

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կաթ-կաթ
պատերին նստած
լռություն

Աննա Գրիգորյան

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silence
drop by drop
on the walls

Anna Grigorian

"Silence IV" is an audio-visual component of the very short untitled poem written above.

"Silence IV" (Լռության կաթիլային) is the second in the recently started series of video-bites shot entirely on cellphone. The video was created in April, 2023, during the nine-month blockade of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). Between the alarming and scary news coming from home, and the calm reality of every-day life abroad, the artist is trying to make sense of the two realities through art. Playing with lights on interior surfaces Anna Grigorian is working through the conflicts between her immediate surroundings and split identity.

"Silence IV" is the second in the series of video-bites made after "A Peculiar Place i." Both works were shot on cellphone, and are an exploration/meditation on a split identity of the artist (immigration, immediate surrounding, internal space). If "A Peculiar Place i." is incorporating a play of sunlight and a flashlight, "Silence IV" is a step inward, presenting the viewer with various interior surfaces under the spotlight of a flashlight, playing and distorting their habitual meanings.

Full credits:
Concept, montage, sound design, video editing - Anna Grigorian

Bio: Anna Grigorian is an experimental artist from Armenia, whose art practice is currently based between Canada and Armenia. With a background in sculpture, literature, and photography, her current chosen medium is moving image.