Self-Destruction
Armenia
2022
Karén Khachaturov’s pop surrealistic works revolve around the digital world and its impact on people. The artist’s visual style highlights the sense of loneliness, alienation and loss of empirical experience that typify, in his view, the modern world. Most of his characters are faceless. These half-object, half-human individuals have been dominated by hyper-consumerism, with this pervasive objectifying view on everything, including themselves. Without adding any unnecessary dramatic clichés, Karén Khachaturov points to the workings of consumerism in our societies, stressing its traps and collateral damage. His images are light-hearted and witty, but they also have a deeper meaning if one is willing to scratch the surface.
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About the artist
Karén Khachaturov is an Armenian photographer and film-maker born in 1992. Through surrealist and highly dramatic aesthetics, he creates scenes that are sometimes incomprehensible to illustrate an absurd world. His work has been exhibited in Armenia and internationally (Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Beijing, Shenzhen, Toronto, Sydney, New York).