ARAMAZDE is a project about how a person creates a temporary sense of order within a constantly changing environment.
The title refers to Aramazd, the supreme deity of the pre-Christian Armenian pantheon, associated with creation and order. For me, this figure became a starting point for thinking about the need to assemble clear forms within chaos.
These forms can take the shape of roles, habits, images, and patterns of behavior. We create them, give them meaning, and use them as points of support. While they help us, they make it easier to act and navigate what is happening around us. Over time, they can be changed, dismantled, or left behind.
Order and chaos exist here as interconnected states. I am interested in the moment of transition, when a familiar system loses its stability and the need arises to find another way of acting and assembling oneself.
Costumes, masks, and separate elements for the body become physical forms of these temporary roles. They can be worn, removed, combined, separated, and used in new configurations. A role takes on a material form, while the form itself remains open to change.
At its current stage, ARAMAZDE develops through costumes, masks, individual objects, performance, video, the body, and space. At the center of the project is the ability to change ways of acting and to assemble new forms in response to a particular situation.