POTENTIAL GALLERY SPACE

http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/

ACROSS THE BODY

This autobiographical video documents the pilgrimage to the Holy city Jerusalem. By the end of the journey, the artist marks her body with BADGE OF PRIDE (HAJJI TATTOO) an iconographic image tattooed on her right arm as her Armenian cultural religious heritage.

And in contrast, this body project experience transcends from its traditional religiousness to become a pure form of self-narration, self-construction and a live archive of her breathing identity.

MOVING ON WITH AUTHORITY

I -131 green passport
for reentry to United States

APPLIED - PROCESSING

meeting armenians with HAJJi TATTOO...(perhaps a lucky day)

http://armenianfestivals.wordpress.com/alexandria-festival-2008/

exhibiting graduate

Friday 29 May 2009, 18:00-21:00pm
point gallery space
Fairfax - VA

BAB TUMA - old city damascus
7 min short film
Synopsis

Bab Tuma is a 7 minutes short experimental video based on cinematic essay that reconstructs the childhood memory relayed through the family’s female bodies.
It’s the story of my mother’s parent’s house where we spent most of our summer as children vacating with our grand mother. 7 years of unpaid rent, this captivating old city Damascus ballade in the Christian quarter through the GATE of THOMAS (BAB=DOOR TUMA=THOMAS) once called GATE OF VENUS during the roman empire reveals the story of these women’s struggle to preserve the property: the family treasure, my grandmothers’ villa.

apparently..THIS IS IT!

NELLY ACHKHEN
MFA installations
March 15 – March 26, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 18, 6-8 PM

make things happen!

I'd love to share with you few little installation and representation concepts for my thesis show. But first I have to write about my final MFA thesis project. LATER!