Debuting in 2019, City of Dove Women by Arpi Adamyan is an art installation which Adamyan describes as a “hybridization of multiple contradictions.”
Arpi Adamyan is a multimedia artist based in New York and Yerevan. After receiving her first MFA from Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts in 2007, Adamyan received her second MFA degree from Parsons School of Design at The New School in 2019. In 2007 she co-founded Queering Yerevan Collective with fellow artists, writers, curators and activists.
Arpi Adamyan creates queer-feminist worlds. The complex realities she builds are charged with historical citations and speculations of a futuristic biotechnological realm. In her installations she combines hand made porcelain and clay objects with digital works on screens to create one seamless world.
I initially wanted to create a complex fictional world with multiple concepts in it, layered with links to multiple historical periods. This is a project that speaks about queer sexuality and its traumatic historical past. It also brings together nature, architecture, and childbirth.
Interview with Khabar Keslan Online Review
To learn more about Adamyan’s queer feminist worlds and art installations please visit The Honey Pump.
