Storages "Resembling doors at first glance, they are actually storage rooms in multi-story buildings. In terms of architecture, they are prominent features of a post-Soviet city; numerous illegal additions appearing on buildings, they are mostly unfolding balconies. In her work, Astghik turns her attention on these additions — but from the inside. This ongoing project, exploring the storage rooms of different high-story buildings, presents her subjective confrontation with the system, which is reflected through the self-organization and appropriation of state-owned space. Paying attention to the differences among quite identical structures, the artist personalizes each of them, turning them into separate independent objects. "The text attributed to the drawings is the analytical description of the object, including where it is located, its materials and colors. This accuracy of archaeological study, on one hand, shows the logic and causal emergence of the object, with a certain seemingly endowed function, while, on the other hand, emphasizes the absurdity of its existence." / Eva Khachatryan

Storages Explores and recruits the pantries constructed by the inhabitants in the entrances of high-rise buildings. They became much more common especially after Armenia gained independence and when the state surveillance on the public spaces withered. These homemade architectural examples are presented as a drawing that looks like an architectural scheme, where artist questions the relation between public and private. / Vahram Aghasyan

Medium: print Dimensions: A3 cm Date: 2014