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Raffie Davtian
The Evolution of the Angel in Line with the State of Exception, 2011
10 Photographic prints on board, vinyl
70 x 100 cm
Co-produced by Sharjah Art Foundation
Courtesy of the Artist
Raffie Davtian works with photography, sculpture and installation, often focusing on the human body. He has had four solo exhibitions including Subjects-Objects of History and their Histories, Proekt_Fabrika, Moscow (20009), and Human Doors, Art and Cultural Studies Laboratory, Avant-garde Folk Music Club, Yerevan, Armenia (2007). Davitian has also taken part in more than a dozen group exhibitions and several film festivals worldwide.
In 2005, he was given an honourable mention at the International Photography Awards in New York.
This person was part of Sharjah Biennial 10
Installation in collaboration with Neda Saeedi.
The Evolution of the Angel in Line with the State of Exception, features a series of photos that act as portraits of angels.
Installation in collaboration with Neda Saeedi.
This sculpture is a reproduction of an imaginary torso of a spiritual substant the homos-angelus - an angel whose anatomical skeleton resembles a multi-winged human being.
Accompanying and complementing the main premise of Sharjah Biennial 10, Plot for a Biennial explores the concept of a ‘conversation’ through printed matter.