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MEKHITAR GARABEDIAN

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MEKHITAR GARABEDIAN [email protected]

born November 6, 1977, in Aleppo, Syrialives and works in Ghent, Belgium

education1999-2003, Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), University College Ghent, MFA Visual Arts, Photography1995-1998, Sint-Lukas Brussels, University College of Art and Design, Audiovisual ArtsresidenciesSlade School of Fine Art, London, U.K., 06/09/2009-10/02/2010APAP VI, Szene (Salzburg) in collaboration with Buda Arts Centre (Kortrijk, B.) and Workspace, Brussels, 2007/2008 (cat.)Laboratory, Buda Arts Centre, Kortrijk, Belgium, September 2005-December 2005

exhibitionsSOLO EXHIBITIONSI love you, but I don’t know, Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 28/02-29/03/2014without even leaving, we are already no longer there, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, 2/12/2011-26/02/2012 (cat.)Young Man Blues, KIOSK, Ghent, Belgium, 19/02-28/03/2010The End, Again, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium, 6/12/2009-11/01/2010Something about today, Beurschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium, 20/11-20/12/2008Intimacy is being angry..., ArtBrussels, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Belgium, 18-21/04/2008 (cat.)Happy when it rains, BE-Part, Platform for Contemporary Art, Waregem, Belgium, 15/05-2/07/2006 (cat.)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)2014Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York, USA, 16/07-28/09 (cat.)Art Basel, Albert Baronian Gallery, Basel, Switzerland, 19/06-22/06The Ever Changing Body III, cc Strombeek (Museumcultuur Strombeek/Gent), Belgium, 2/05-25/05ArtBrussels, Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 25/04-27/04Le Faux Soir, a project by KIOSK (Ghent) for Art Brussels, Belgium, 25/04–27/04The Sky is Blue in Some Other Way, Elba Benitez Gallery, Madrid, Spain, 25/04–31/05Bande à part, Albert Baronian Gallery, CAB, Brussels, Belgium, 14/02-15/03

2013Middle Gate Geel ‘13, Divers locations, Geel, Belgium, 29/09/2013-19/01/2014 Long ago, and not true anyway, waterside contemporary, London, UK, 5/09-26/10ArtBrussels, Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 18-21/04Blijven Kijken/Ce qui nous regarde/Dropouts, M, Museum Leuven, Belgium, 14/02-12/05 (cat.)

2012Graphology, Art Exchange, University of Essex, UK, 1/10–3/11Inside Out, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany, 10-14/07TRACK, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, 12/05-16/09 (cat.)Graphology, Drawing Room, London, UK, 10/05-30/06 (cat.)BOOKSHOWBOOKSHOP, BE-Part, Platform for Contemporary Art, Waregem, Belgium, 15/04-10/06 (cat.)BLACK PAGES #28, #29, #30, #31, Galerie Emmanuel Layr (Garage), Vienna, Austria, 29/03-5/05

2011Villa II, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Knokke, Belgium, 1/07-28/08Freestate II, Young Belgian Art, ‘Splendid Isolation’, Oostende, Belgium, 25/06-11/09 (cat.)East: Excitable Speech: West, Kerstin Engholm Gallery, Vienna, Austria, 12/05-18/06 (cat.)ArtBrussels, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 28/04-1/05Graphology, Chapter 2, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium, 8/04-13/06Distant Montage, ERBA, Valence, France, 24/02-11/03Le Mont Analogue, BE-Part, Platform for Contemporary Art, Waregem, Belgium, 20/02-22/04ArtRotterdam, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, the Netherlands, 9-13/02Art in Belgium After 2010, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium, 23/01-27/02

2010Multiple Solitude, De Garage, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Belgium, 18/12/2010-27/02/2011Manières Noires/Black Outs, BAM, Beaux Arts Mons, Belgium, 2/10/2010-13/02/2011 (cat.)Dwelling-In-Travel, Art Today Association, Centre for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 11/09-5/10Gustav, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Knokke, Belgium, 13/08-26/08 (cat.)Be.Welcome, Atomium, Brussels, Belgium, 22/05-31/08ArtBrussels, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 28/04-2/05The Armory Show, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, New York, USA, 4-7/03The Haifa Mediterranean Biennale, Haifa, Israel, 19/02-6/04Changez! A Belgian Show, 21 Rozendaal, Enschede, The Netherlands, 24/01-9/05

2009Uit het geheugen, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium, 10/10/2009-2/05/2010 (cat.)ArtForum Berlin, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Germany, 24-27/09 (cat.)Arte Santander, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Spain, 22-26/07The Biennale Knokke, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Knokke, Belgium, 11/07-6/09Video Vortex 4 Exhibition, Multimedia Cultural Center, Split, Croatia, 21-26/05ArtBrussels, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Belgium, 24-27/04Something else!!!!, MAN, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy, 6/02-19/04

20085th Fair of Culture, Studentski Centar, Zagreb, Croatia, 11-14/12The Ariane de Rothschild Art Prize, Turn & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium, 28/11/’08-11/01/’09 (cat.)Next, Buda Arts Centre, Kortrijk, Belgium, 22/11-6/12Working Title Festival, WorkspaceBrussels, Belgium, 8-16/11ArtForum Berlin, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Germany, 30/10-3/11 (cat.)Monologische Dialoge, Tanzfabrik, Berlin, Germany, 29/10-2/11XS, Ghent, Belgium, 25-28/09Belgier, aktuelle Kunst aus Belgien, Figge/von Rosen Galerie, Köln, Germany, 22/08-2/10Collection Presentation, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, 19/07/’08-25/01/’09Fragile, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium, 15/06-31/08From Armenia with love, GEMAK, Den Haag, the Netherlands, 28/04-11/05Fresh #3, Buda Arts Centre, Kortrijk, Belgium, 18-20/04Minimal Waves, L’écurie, Brussels, Belgium, 21-22/03Takaaki Izumi - Mekhitar Garabedian, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium, 16/03-27/04Trends 2008, St-Barbara chapel, Ghent, Belgium, 1-15/03ArtRotterdam, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, the Netherlands, 7-10/02

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2007Artissima, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Torino, Italy, 9-11/11Open, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, 26-28/10In de wind #1, cc Strombeek, Belgium, 1/10-31/12Gasthoven’07–Zonevreemd, cc Het Gasthuis, Aarschot, Belgium, 6-30/09 (cat.)Silent Revolutions, Chancart - Kruidtuin/Bibliotheek Tweebronnen, Leuven, Belgium, 6/07-2/09 (cat.)MARTa Schweigt, MARTa, Herford, Germany, 2/06-7/10 (cat.)ArtBrussels, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Belgium, 20-23/04Act 2: 50 Years Antigone Theatre, Kortrijk, Belgium, 26-28/01

2006Fortis Young Ones Award, LineArt, the Art Fair, Ghent, Belgium, 1-5/12 (cat.)KASK@LineArt, LineArt, the Art Fair, Ghent, Belgium, 1-5/12Parcours Video Installations, Beurschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium, 24/11-23/12Youngst*rs II, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium, 24/11-23/12mankind, Story of a wound, S.M.A.K. and C.R.K.C., Leuven and Heverlee, Belgium, 16/09-19/11 (cat.)Trends 2006, St-Barbara chapel, Ghent, Belgium, 10-19/02 (cat.)

2005Attack!, Buda Arts Centre - Dans in Kortrijk and Limelight, Kortrijk, Belgium, 13-16/04

2004 Undercurrent, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul, Turkey, 6/05-12/06 Eclips, cc Bornem, cc Willebroek, cc Puurs, Belgium, 18/04-30/05 (cat.)Trends 2004, St-Barbara chapel, Ghent, Belgium, 12-28/03 (cat.)

2003Contemporary Photography from Flanders, Historical Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia, 12-30/11aLOSTaSOULS #1, Netwerk Art Centre, Aalst, Belgium, 25/10Coming People, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, 5/07-25/08

publications

Un bel été quand même, KIOSK, Ghent, Belgium, 2014Something about today, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, 2011Yavreeges hokeet seerem (My beloved / my little one, let me love your soul) , KIOSK, Ghent, Belgium, 2010M. et moi, Céline Butaye and Mekhitar Garabedian, Szene/Buda Arts Centre/WorkspaceBrussels, 2008Yerkaran (Songbook), 1890 - 1923 SONGS, 2006, C.R.K.C., Leuven/S.M.A.K., Ghent, 2006Happy when it rains,Toohcsmi Uitgevers/Publishers, Ghent, Belgium, 2006

collections

S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum for Contemporary Art, Ghent, BelgiumArgos, Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, BelgiumMuseum of Europe, BelgiumThe Shoes or no shoes? Museum, Kruishoutem, Belgiumprivate collections

screenings

Cinéclub Neckelodéon, Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, Université de Liège, 18/12/2013FESTIVAAALLLAALLAL 2012, Scheld’apen, Antwerp, Belgium, 3-23/09/2012Learning Piece: Be Patient, My Soul, Argos, Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, Belgium, 31/03-11/04/2009Open Archive #2, Argos, Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, Belgium, 3/11 & 12/11/2010Break Even Store, IFFR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 27/01-7/02/2009Kaskades #2, KASK, Sphinx, Ghent, Belgium, 16/11/2009Open Archive #1, Re:collections: acquisitions 2005-2007, Argos, Brussels, Belgium, 29/09-10/11/2007

grants and prizes

grant of the Flemish community, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014winner of The Ariane de Rothschild Art Prize, Brussels, Belgium, 2008nominee, Fortis Young Ones Award, Lineart, Ghent, Belgium, 2006Prize Legate Franciscus Pycke, 2003, Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), University College Ghent

commissioned works

Tu, que me lees, ¿estás seguro de entender mi lenguaje?permanent public artwork, commissioned by the city of Genk, Belgium, 2009

magazines

Table (Gentbrugge), 2011-2013, Le Salon (welcometolesalon.be), Belgium, 2/04/2014Distances (artist’s page), Hart, nr. 122, , Belgium, 13/02/2014Critical Arts, South-North Cultural and Media Studeis, Vol 27, nr. 5, Oct. 2013, Routledge, UK (+ Cover)‘And Honey, I’m the world’s forgotten boy’, Psychoanalitische Perspectieven, VOL 31 (2), UGent, Belgium, 2013Psychoanalitische Perspectieven, VOL 30 (1)-(4), UGent, Belgium, 2012 (Covers)BLACK PAGES #29, Vienna, Austria, 29/3/2012Gagarin #23, Antwerp, Belgium, 2011A Prior #20, Ghent, Belgium, spring 2010Code #8, Brussels, Belgium, winter 2008-2009Kunst Nu, Vrienden van het S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, Sept-Oct, 2003

catalogues (selection)Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York, USA, 2014Blijven Kijken/Ce qui nous regarde/Dropouts, M, Museum Leuven, Belgium, 2013

Shoebox Memories, TopoCopy, Ghent, Belgium, 2013TRACK, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, 2012Graphology, Drawing Room (UK), M HKA, KASK, Ara.Mer, Belgium, 2012BOOKSSHOWBOOKSHOP, Art Paper Editions, Ghent, Belgium, 2012Werktank, Bierbeek, Belgium, 2011Freestate II, Young Belgian Art, ‘Splendid Isolation’, Vrijstaat O., Oostende, Belgium, 2011East by Southwest, Curated by_Vienna, Departure, Vienna, Austria, 2011KASK 2011, University College Ghent, Faculty of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent, Belgium, 2011Invitation au Voyage, Academia Press, Leerstoel Karel Geirlandt, Ghent, Belgium, 20105 Years of BE-Part, BE-Part, platform for contemporary art, Waregem, Belgium, 2010Be.Welcome, Atomium, Brussels, Belgium, 2010

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Over vorm (Flower Power, deel twee), Hans Theys, Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium, 2009Kunst & Architectuur in Genk 2007 - 2009, Cahier 6, Stad Genk, dienst Cultuur, 2009Be.Welcome, Atomium, Brussels, Belgium, 2010 Over vorm (Flower Power, deel twee), Hans Theys, Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium, 2009TIME IS A BOOK, Time festival 2009, Ghent, Belgium, 2009Artforum Berlin 2009, Germany, 2009Uit het geheugen. Over weten en vergeten, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium, 2009S.M.A.K. 07/08, S.M.A.K., Ghent Belgium, 2009The Ariane de Rothschild Art Prize, Brussels, Belgium, 2008Desire, ArtForum, Berlin, Germany, 2008APAP VI: The Art of Survival, artistic views on the social, Corpus/Transforma, 2008Contemporary Art in Belgium 2008, Stichting voor de Kunsten in Brussel, Belgium, 2008ArtBrussels 2008, Belgium, 2008Contemporary Art in Belgium 2007, Stichting voor de Kunsten in Brussel, Belgium, 2007Gasthoven’07 - Zonevreemd, cc Het Gasthuis, Belgium, 2007Silent Revolutions, Chancart, Belgium, 2007Marta Schweigt, MARTa Herford, Germany, 2007Trends 2006, Ghent, Belgium, 2006mankind, Story of a wound, C.R.K.C. and S.M.A.K., Belgium, 2006Lineart 2006, Ghent, Belgium, 2006

literature (selection)

Een bevrijdende kijk op de identitieit, Christine Vuegen, Hart nr. 126, 15/05/2014Kunst van overal, maar wel één overtuigend geheel, Eric Bracke, De Morgen, 5/05/2014To remember intentionally, Liene Aerts, Le Salon (welcometolesalon.be), 2/04/2014Mekhitar Garabedian, Colette Dubois, Hart nr. 124, 27/03/2014Les arrêts sur images de Garabedian, Roger Pierre Turine, La Libre Belgique, Arts Libre, 14/03/2014Mekhitar en de Mekhitaristen, Sam Steverlynck, Agenda, Brussel Deze Week, 14/03/2014Long ago, and not true anyway, Josephine New, Frieze, 159, Nov-Dec 2013Neglected Histories and Migrant Identity, Dan Munn, EyeContact, 20/10/2013Long ago, and not true anyway, Steve Ruiz, Daily Serving, 24/09/2013Long ago, and not true anyway, Anya Harrison, This is Tomorrow, 17/09/2013De Ander in het oeuvre van Mekhitar Garabedian, Filip Geerardyn, in For your pleasure? Psychoanalyse over esthetisch genot, Garant, Antwerpen en Apeldoorn, 2013Mémoire et image, Marie-Aude Baronian, Lausanne, L’Age d’Homme, 2013Hier en altijd al elders, Pieter Van Bogaert, in Blijven Kijken, Square/Museum M, 2013De Ander als readymade in het oeuvre van Mekhitar Garabedian, Filip Geerardyn, Psychoanalitische Perspectieven, UGent, VOL 30 (2), 2012Track ontrafelt de fysionomie van Gentse wijken, Paul Depondt, Hart nr. 100, 6/09/2012Von der Fleischerhalle zum Traum vom Baumhaus, Anne Katrin Fessler, derStandard.at, 4/07/2012Gante hecha museo (contemporáneo), Tereixa Constenla, El Pais, 20/05/2012Track, een spoor van kunst doorheen Gent, Liesbeth Langouche, Collect AAA, nr. 427, mei 2012‘Het iets van vandaag’, Boek van Mekhitar Garabedian, Inge Braeckman, Hart nr. 95, 12/04/2012De Kunstenaar is niet Thuis, Pieter Van Bogaert, Hart nr. 90, 22/12/2011The Library of Memory, Marie-Aude Baronian, in Something about today, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, 2011

Here, and always already Elsewhere, Pieter Van Bogaert, in Werktank, Bierbeek, Belgium, 2011De meervoudige identiteit van Mekhitar Garabedian, Peter VanTyghem, De Standaard, 17/12/2011Verzamelen tegen het vergeten, De Morgen, 5/12/2011Hoeders van de hand, Sacha Bronwasser, De Volkskrant, 29/07/2011Jong en relevant, Marc Ruyters, Hart nr. 84, 14/07/2011De Toekomst van de kunst blikt terug, Sarah Theerlynck, De Morgen, 24/06/2011Vrijstaat voor jonge kunst, Jan Van Hove, De Standaard, 1/07/2011De onbereikbare overkant, Marc Ruyters, Hart nr. 79, 24/03/2011‘Mijn Armeens is een uitdovende Taal’, Paul Depondt, Hart nr. 78, 3/03/2011Dingen Zien (De Werktank in de Garage), Pieter Van Bogaert, Hart nr. 76, 20/01/2011Seebad mit Guerilla-Flair, Ingeborg Wiensowski, Spiegel Online, 10/08/2010Eigentijdse memorie van Kriemann en Garabedian, Inge Braeckman, Hart nr. 63, 4/03/2010Kiosk is half museum, half experiment, Sven Rammeloo, de Standaard, 22/02/2010Learning as not to forget, Heleen Rodiers, Agenda, Brussel Deze Week, 6/04/2009Elk einde: een begin, Inge Braeckman, Hart nr. 60, 24/12/2009Gent is mini-S.M.A.K. rijker, Karel Van Keymeulen, de Gentenaar, 20/02/2010Schilderkunst is elastisch, Christine Vuegen, Hart nr. 45, 26/12/2008Qui a peur de la peinture?, Claude Lorent, La Libre Belgique, 11/12/2008Niveaus van indiscretie, Pieter Van Bogaert, Hart nr. 44, 4/12/2008De taal van de kunst, Hans Theys, Hart nr. 40, 11/09/2008Belgier. The dark side of art, Inge Braeckman, Hart nr. 40, 11/09/2008Die Schattenseite des schönen Scheins, Bettina Deschler, Kölner Stadt Anzeiger, 5/09/2008Kunst onder een rieten dak, Jan Van Hove, De Standaard, 6/08/2008From Armenia with Love, Riet van der Linden, Beelden nr. 43, 28/08/2008‘Silent Revolutions’ in Leuven, Gerrit Vermeiren, Hart nr. 24, 12/07/2007 Vreemdeling van 100 jaar geleden, Bert Popelier, De Tijd, 5/12/2006Kwetsbaarheid wordt kunst, Geert van der Speeten, De Standaard, 29/09/2006Zonder romantiek, Luk Lambrecht, Knack, 14/06/2006Je bent wat je spreekt, Gerrit Vermeiren, Hart nr. 7, 1/06/2006Mekhitar Garabedian: Happy when it rains, Tom Viaene, Goddeau, 19/05/2006

lectures (selection)

Artist Talk, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium, 7/05/2014I am Merely the Place, “Mikhail Bakhtine et les arts”, l’Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, 4-5/03/2013Something about today, conference “Evaluating Research in the Arts”, VUB, Brussels, Belgium, 15-16/11/2012Étrangers à nous-mêmes, seminar “Cliniques de la création”, FUNDP, Namur, Belgium, 6/05/2010Artist Talk, KIOSK, Ghent, Belgium, 18/03/2010Everything I can’t say / All that I can’t say, ‘Invitation au Voyage, Kunst als voertuig voor mentale reizen’, Symposium Leerstoel Karel Geirlandt, University Ghent, Belgium, 2 - 4/12/2009De stilte van de polyglotten, seminar “Cliniques de la création”, Department for Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting, Ghent University, Belgium, 17/11/2009 And that’s why I’m happy when it rains, SIC (Sound Image Culture), Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium, 11/06/2009

academicsince 2008: guest professor, since 2009: researcher, Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), School of arts, University College Ghent

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WORKS

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Untitled (I believe in miracles/I still believe in miracles, Douglas Gordon, 1994), 20142014, print on paper, 2 x 72.5 cm x 57.5 cm, infinite copies

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Morgenröte (And there is no telling what encounters would be in store for us if we were less inclined to give in to sleep)2013-2014, 45 slides, projection

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Morgenröte (And there is no telling what encounters would be in store for us if we were less inclined to give in to sleep)2013-2014, 45 slides, projection

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Morgenröte (And there is no telling what encounters would be in store for us if we were less inclined to give in to sleep)2013-2014, 45 slides, projection

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Il n’y a pas de victoire, … from Les Carabiniers (1963)2014, neon, 134cm x approx. 55cm x 5cm

Il n’y a pas de victoire, … from Les Carabiniers (1963)2014, neon, 134 cm x approx. 55 cm x 5 cm

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Back Cover (Gorky), 20142014, inkjet, diasec, 80 cm x 100 cm

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With my tongue in my cheek, Marcel Duchamp (1959), 20142014, pencil on paper, 20.7 cm x 27 cm, plaster cast, framed: 44.8 cm x 51 cm

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J’ai envie (Lise et Alex), from Mauvais Sang (1986)2014, marker on wall, 187.5 cm x 145 cm

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Mechitaristengasse, Wien, 2011 (Mkhitar)2011-2014, inkjet, diasec, 5 x 100 cm x 66 cm

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Mechitaristengasse, Wien, 2011 (Battle of Avarayr)2011-2014, inkjet, diasec, 5 x 100 cm x 66 cm

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Mechitaristengasse, Wien, 2011 (Ararat with light)2011-2014, inkjet, diasec, 5 x 100 cm x 66 cm

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Untitled (Daniel Varoujan, Ghent), 2011 2011, paper, intaglio print, 73.5 cm x 58.5 cm, infinite copies

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Untitled (Daniel Varoujan, Ghent), 2011 2011, paper, intaglio print, 73.5 cm x 58.5 cm, infinite copies

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Distances2013-2014, ink on paper, 69 cm x 100 cm

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Table (Histoire de mes ancêtres) / Saint Lazare, Venise2013-2014, ink on paper, 134 cm x 100 cm, 69 cm x 100 cm

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Table (Histoire de mes ancêtres) / Saint Lazare, Venise2013-2014, ink on paper, 134 cm x 100 cm, 69 cm x 100 cm

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Lettre d’Alex, from Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991)2013-2014, pencil on paper, 69 cm x 100 cm

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Lettre de Michèle, from Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991)2013-2014, ink on paper, 69 cm x 100 cm

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Suicide/Fragmentation2013-2014, ink on paper, 134 cm x 100 cm

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I love you, but I don’t know exhibition views, Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels, 28.02-29.03.2014

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I love you, but I don’t know exhibition views, Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels, 28.02-29.03.2014

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Search And Destroy (And Honey, I’m the world’s forgotten boy)2012, aluminium, paint, approx. 1600 cm x 172 cm x 8 cm

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fig. a, a comme alphabet (carpet, 2012)2012, hand made carpet, 2 m x 3 m

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Bourdj Hamoud, Mar Mikhael, 20102010-2011, 5 lightboxes, 5 x 75 cm x 111.5 cm

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Bourdj Hamoud, Mar Mikhael, 20102010-2011, 5 lightboxes, 5 x 75 cm x 111.5 cm

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Without even leaving, we are already no longer there2010-2011, video installation, DVD, 3 x 30 min

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Without even leaving, we are already no longer there2010-2011, video installation, DVD, 3 x 30 min

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Les mots des autres2011, neon, 4.76 m x 22 cm x 5 cm

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Library (of memory), Chapter One2002-ongoing, mixed media, dimensions variable

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Library (of memory), Chapter One2002-ongoing, mixed media, dimensions variable

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Words, Recollected2010-ongoing, marker on wall, dimensions variable

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fig. 2009, marker on address book, 7.8 cm x 6.5 cm

fig. 2009, marker on address book, 7.8 cm x 6.5 cm

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Hi, I’m Kit, from Badlands (1973)2009, marker on plasterboard, 145 cm x 148 cm

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fig. a, a comme alphabet2009–ongoing, pencil, pen, marker on paper, dimensions variable