The mountain comes to me
5 DVDs and a 3D model on a robot
2007

La montagne vient à moi (français)

Self Portrait
mixed media installation, 1998

Creating conceptual art is like solving a jigsaw puzzle, except that the artist also creates the pieces of the puzzle. My art talks about issues that are important to me and I like to share them with an audience. I also like to explore new possibilities and tell my stories in different ways. I try to create audio-visual atmospheres that the viewer can walk in and experience. In a complex interdisiplinary installation piece the components take various shapes and use different mediums. The viewer's interaction becomes more active. Pieces might have life size moving images or larger than life every-day documents. Pedestrian interviews become center of an art piece and the viewer's concentration point. Writing becomes visual imagery and spoken word becomes noise, or music, depending on the perception of the veiwer. The atmosphere becomes ephemeral, like life.

Alina Mnatsakanian