Mekhitar Garabedian

S.M.A.K. presents the first museum solo exhibition of the Syrian born and Belgian based Mekhitar Garabedian (1977, Aleppo). The exhibition consists of various works from the last five years, several new productions and a first look at Garabedian's 'library'. In his work, Garabedian interrogates processes of subject formation and the place of the individual in a contemporary world shaped by migration. He investigates the ruptures caused by migration across a wide array of media, tracing a hauntology of its effects in the present and, in a related vein, how the linguistic realm structures our psyche and position in the world. In his researches, Garabedian also contemplates the conceptual possibilities and continued potency of the work of art. His personal diasporic history is as layered as the intricately loomed discourse he presents, echoing with a multiplicity of references.

The exhibition will be accompanied by the publication 'Mekhitar Garabedian. Something About Today', with articles by Marie-Aude Baronian, Jorge Luis Borges, Svetlana Boym, Thomas Caron, Mekhitar Garabedian and Philippe Van Cauteren.

Mekhitar Garabedian
without even leaving, we are already no longer there
Kurator: Thomas Caron