THE ROSE SALON

Mekhitar Garabedian (1977, Syria) lives and works in Ghent. 

Deploying a variety of media such as drawing, video, photography and installations, many of the works of Mekhitar Garabedian (1977, Syria) draw from his experience as an immigrant and play on the humour and poetic qualities he finds between languages, cultures and histories.  

He examines how the split that migration creates continues to determine the present and how, accordingly, 'language' forms the position and the psyche of the migrant. Just as his personal diasporic history is layered, his work echoes with a multiplicity of references to literature, music, philosophy and visual arts.

Recent exhibitions include: I copied this page in one country and the other page in another land, Albert Baronian, Brussels (2023); fig a, a comme alphabet, Valerie Traan, Antwerp (2019); Non. J’ai changé d’avis. J’ai envie d’aller à Hambourg comme dans la chanson d’Édith Piaf., Albert Baronian, Brussels (2019); Un bel été quand même, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (2015); Armenity / Hayoutioun , The National Pavilion of the Republic of Armenia, 56th Biennale di Venezia, Venezia (2015); Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York (2014); Without even leaving, we are already no longer there, S.M.A.K., Ghent (2011-12).