Mekhitar Garabedian - Happy when it rains - Toohcsmi 2006
Happy when it rains is the title of the first book by the Belgian artist of Armenian origin, Mekhitar Garabedian. It was published to coincide with the artist's first solo exhibition of the same name.
A second-generation emigrant, his work analyses the specific position in which he finds himself as a young migrant, placing the Armenian memory that he still lives with on a daily basis at his paternal home face to face with Belgian reality. The notions of identity, diaspora, history and language are explored in the photo installations ('Happy when it rains'), video installations ('Beirut 1963', 'M.Verdoncklaan', 'L'étranger') and sound installations ('Agheg', 'Pararan') that make up this exhibition, most of which were created in 2005 during Garabedian's artist residency at the Buda Kunstcentrum in Kortrijk.
The book explores the content of around eight of the works in the exhibition.
144p - EN - 13x18cm - softcover - great condition