Sarkis: Respiro and Beyond
Reflections on the process of curating a project by Sarkis for the Pavilion of Turkey at the Venice Biennale 2015, in the year of the centennial of the Armenian Genocide.
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Mirrors with fingerprints applied in watercolor by seven children.
At a three-day workshop preceding the centennial, the children applied the patterns of the cosmos that Sarkis has been drawing in his notebooks to the mirrors with their fingertips. The young contributors came from Istanbul and Venice and spoke Armenian, Kurdish, Arabic, Aramaic, even Chinese, and not only Turkish and Italian.
© Photo: André Morin. Courtesy of the artist
and the Pavilion of Turkey, Venice Biennale 2015
Reflections on the process of curating a project by Sarkis for the Pavilion of Turkey at the Venice Biennale 2015, in the year of the centennial of the Armenian Genocide.