"In these times, it's crucial to be a hybrid curator, embracing multiple disciplines and navigating between the physical and digital, the contemporary and the past." Curator Yev Kravt
I sat down with Armenian visual artist Aleksey Manukyan in the village of Hatsik, not far from Gyumri in Armenia, near the sacred stone Tsakqar, (arm. Ծակքար) a sacred stone with a narrow cleft, worn smooth by generations of bodies passing through it. It is said that to pass through it is to experience rebirth, a ritual of healing, of becoming, and of realizing one’s dreams.
We’ve been speaking for more than six months now. Over these months, I’ve gathered notes and fragme
