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WELCOME TO THE ARTIST SPACE

VANANE BORIAN
multidisciplinary contemporary artist

I am an Armenian and Israeli multidisciplinary artist and cultural activist working at the intersection of visual art, critical research, and socio-political discourse. My practice spans photography, video, installation, performance, and text—exploring systems of control such as patriarchy, ideology, media, and religion, and how they shape both personal and collective identity.

Rooted in feminist thought and informed by post-Soviet and postcolonial narratives, my work navigates themes of displacement, memory, and symbolic resistance. I use visual language to question dominant structures and create counter-images that challenge inherited norms around gender, power, and belief.

In recent years, my work has increasingly focused on the convergence of art and science—investigating how emerging technologies, scientific frameworks, and cultural systems interact to shape human experience and future imaginaries.

DISCOVER PROJECTS

DISCOVER PROJECTS

Collaborative projects, artist collectives, personal digital art, ed

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Online story of post irony 

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Art collective 

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Antibody art collective

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Educational platform

ARTIST STATEMENT

ARTIST STATEMENT

As an intersectional artist, I focus on the different types of discrimination, such as xenophobia, misogyny, or ageism, which can converge and impact individuals and groups. My subjects are diverse, but all of them focus on social critics. The human centristic perception brought me to research the impact of social-cultural and political aspects on an individual and a group. Being an immigrant woman, I deal with the problem of the lack of identity. That point contributed to using my background and global research practices to develop an artistic language, which includes a range of creative media and tools that help me to structurize the messages and identify myself.

I work with irony and post-irony ideas and use them as a criticizing tool. Often I use visual advertising language that is accessible and symbolistic; it includes satire and a very straight message. That makes the irony stronger. I'm dealing with commodity fetishism and sexualization, body issues, the hypocrisy of equality, the patriarchal gaze, and hierarchal structures. Based on my experience living in two different religious societies, I realized the power of religion, even if that is not obvious and has not had a straight impact. That aspect has influenced my visual language, too, so I use recognizable theological symbolism. The representation of a woman's entity and the oppression of small groups in modern society have changed but still have problematic constituents. That fact is the reason for the ongoing actuality of intersectional art. Working on gender issues brought me to develop research practices and writing. While researching and analyzing metamodernist vision in my works and culture in general, I realized that in the era of transnationalism bordering the restrictions due to COVID-19, there is an absolute connectedness between biological and technological. Today my art is about cross-disciplinary collaborations, horizontal relationships, and combining science and art. I believe that science and art in cooperation will become a contemporary translation tool. It will translate from the technological to the humanitarian and connect the human to the nonbiological in the surest way by saving critical personal qualities and making human understanding and analyzing patterns of new paradigm adoption. Rethinking and restructuring reality during global changes is the primary purpose of this connection.

Contact Me

Thank you!

CONTACTS

email:vanasik@gmail.com


tel:(972) 526 841 462 / (374) 77 885 223


location: Tel Aviv, Israel / Yerevan, Armenia



 

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Created by Vanane Borian  2022

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