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Veronika Babayan
Year of birth: 1994
Place of birth: The Womb, C-Section
contact.vbabayan@gmail.com
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Place of birth: The Womb, C-Section
contact.vbabayan@gmail.com
go to sandberg student page
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biography
Veronika Babayan is an artist and art mediator who is currently based somewhere between Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Istanbul and Yerevan.
Babayan uses a meta-autobiographical approach to study pedagogies that affect the perpetual production of national identity. Using traditional craft, particularly those practiced by women, she works to deconstruct the authority of patriotic memory and to create fluid spaces for interterritorial belonging. SOUR COUNTERFEITS
SOUR COUNTERFEITS is a setup of a forgery lab which consists of several elements and shows the production of fruit leather. This slow method of sun-drying fruit has been practiced predominantly by women in the Caucasus and Middle East. The work imitates the tradition of fruit leather as an inherited routine of a maternal practice that is part of a collective memory. The recipe takes the form of a mnemonic device, which has the ability to transmit both transgenerationally and transnationally. Here, it is regarded as a vessel through which collective stories can be preserved and transmitted.Special thanks: Jerszy Seymour, Catherine Somzé, Florence Parot, Daniel Dewar, Saâdane Afif, Yiannis Mouravas, Aurelien Lepetit and Jan Vahl.
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