On a wildflower-lined gravel track off a quiet thoroughfare...
Biennale Arte 2024
6Beacons and Pillars
Haig Aivazian


Etched copper.

2024




Photography by Ugo Carmeni 2024


With Beacons and Pillars (2024), produced in residency at the Robert Blackburn Print workshop (EFA-RBPW) in New York with master printer Jazmine Catasús, Aivazian continues his long-standing work with found imagery, cropping out and reproducing etchings of torch bearers and smoke from colonial expedition illustrations. It is unclear whether the torches are beacons leading masses into the light, or burning and looting in the name of so-called civilization.



Photography by Ugo Carmeni 2024