Reminders

Angela Hovakimyan’s installation work “Reminders” is an ongoing process rather than a finished piece. Here, engraving is viewed as an act of resistance against short-term memory, amnesia, and environments that normalize forgetting. The work addresses questions of radical identity, bodily memory, and the politics of urban transformation, proposing to view memory as a physical, time-consuming, and at times painful process. Over the course of a month, on the same day each week, the artist returns to the exhibition space to engrave a new reminder, inviting the viewer to become an active participant in the action. Part of the “Armenia-Diaspora” permanent exhibition and the “Contexts of Memory” project. Curator: Bela Pogosian