Veronika Babayan
artistiek onderzoek - autobiografisch - community - conceptueel - cross-over - dekolonisatie - Diaspora - educatie - geschiedenis - installatie - internationaal - publicatie
Veronika Babayan uses an auto-ethnographic approach in the adaptation of early feminist practices of preservation in relation to the concepts of collective memory, intergenerational trauma and diasporic identity. A large part of her work revolves around fruit leather making - a recipe through which stories of deracination, migration and survival of the Armenian women have been passed on intergenerationally and transnationally. In this light, Babayan is instrumentalising the recipe into a collective political subjectivity, a mnemonic device, and a transmission vessel of oral histories. In doing so, her work depicts the brutal and visceral characteristics of seemingly fragile materials that represent both nurturance and resistance.