Zara Kuredjian
Title: a hard pLace
Medium: Sifted Dirt, Detritus Paper, Leaves, Unfired Clay, and Glue
Dimensions: 5'2" x6' x 1'
Year: 2016
Title: a cyclical desire for
Medium: Sifted Dirt, Porcelain with Hair, and Dried Roots
Dimensions: 4' x 2' x 2'
Year: 2016
Title: autobiography a
Medium: Ink on Detritus Paper with Hair
Dimensions: 8.5" x 11"
Year: 2016
Title: In a State of Presence
Medium: Dirt and Glue on Plastic
Dimensions: 38" x 108"
Year: 2016
Title: another and another
Medium: Sifted Dirt, Unfired Clay, and Pushpin in Room
Dimensions: 8.5' x 9' x 10'
Year: 2016
Title: another and another (detail)
Medium: Sifted Dirt, Unfired Clay, and Pushpin in Room
Dimensions: 8.5' x 9' x 10'
Year: 2016
Title: five by four
Medium: Clay on Plastic Sheets
Dimensions: 54" x 13"
Year: 2016
Title: Nether
Medium: Dirt, Charcoal, Chalk, Detritus Paper, String, Hair, and Glue on Wood
Dimensions: 24" x 24"
Year: 2016
Title: hope is
Medium: Dirt from 5'2" x 2' x 2' hole, 40 Unfired Clay Tablets, White Rocks, Roots, Detritus Cloth, and Ring
Dimensions: 9' x 8.5' x 10'
Year: 2016
Title: 26
Medium: Dirt
Dimensions: 16" x 60" x 780"
Year: 2016
My interdisciplinary practice draws on history, memory, and survival to visually examine relationships among identity, narrative, and trauma. My desire to understand my contemporary sense of self is fueled by my investigations in both personal and public histories. Labor and repetition provide an expanding framework for understanding difficulties within physical and psychological contexts. The futility and transience of my labor and its by-products yield evocative objects of questionable beauty and value. By exploring narrative, identity, and trauma I inextricably link my understanding of empathy and compassion to deeply seeded genealogies of activity. The symbolic relationship between my work and my life directly correlate to my desire to understand my sense of humanity.