The Truth About The Lies I Tell Myself
Maria Khatchadourian is a Lebanese-Armenian artist whose installation hosts a sensory and embodied experience about the questioning of her own existence. A small room, constructed around a skylight, holds a multimedia installation depicting an introspective place that she longs for, yet knows is impossible to reach. Using the ubiquity of sky as a connecting thread that ties all aspects of her existence together, she evokes a dream-like space within her installation that realises the combination of where she was, what she was, and where and who she is now: a split habitat.
The work speaks of locations that are so far removed from one another that they seem irreconcilable, and yet they coexist in everything that she is today. However, the melancholy that is provoked by missing the place she used to be in is also what conjures her love for it, creating a paradoxical daily malaise.
