Nur

2002

Silvina Der Meguerditchian

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Laminated photograph, wool

200 x 220 cm

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Estimate: $7,000 - $8,000

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Courtesy of the Artist

Location

Berlin, Germany

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ABOUT Silvina Der Meguerditchian

Granddaughter of Armenian immigrants to Argentina, Silvina Der Meguerditchian lives and works in Berlin since 1988. Her artistic work deals with issues related to the burden of national identity, the role of minorities in society and the potential of a space "in between". Der-Meguerditchian is interested in the impact of migration in the urban...

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About this artwork

Nur, from the series "The Texture of Memory". In "The texture of Identity" Der Megherditchian combines the digital photo of a sliced pomegranate with wool threads. Her grandfather survived the genocide in Turkey in 1915 only because he hid for days on end on a pomegranate tree. Shimmering between bloodstains and signs of paradise, the work calls up the memory of the genocide of the Armenians in Turkey, which is one hundred years old this year. Ingo Arend

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